Re: HELP: Relative Clauses with Postpositions

David Peterson wrote:

>"I was trying to do some work on the Babel text in a
language of mine, and came across some problems with
the sentence "They found a plain in the land of Shinar".
[SNIP]  Which seems more "right":
plain-ACC. land-NOM. Shinar-GEN. in [they found it]
or
plain-ACC. land-LOC. Shinar-GEN. in [they found it]
or
plain-ACC. land-LOC. in Shinar-GEN. [they found it]
[SNIP]"

I (Tommie Powell) respond:

Consider this fourth possibility:
plain-ACC. land-LOC. Shinar-GEN. [they found it].
Yes, you can just get rid of "in"-- because it's useless!
It suffices to say that the land of Shinar is the location
of the plain they found, since that automatically means
that the plain is in that land.