Re: THEORY: Adpositional Heads
| From: | Muke Tever <muke@...> | 
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| Date: | Thursday, September 11, 2003, 19:51 | 
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> "I" is a pronoun, not a noun, and, unlike nouns, pronouns cannot be
> modified (in English or in any other language that I know of).
Isn't there, though, 'alter ego' et al.?
> So, though it's fine to say "The person in the house saw a man," listeners
> will cringe if they hear "I in the house saw a man."
But not so much so at "he being in the house saw what happened"...?  It's
kind of strange, in any case.
     *Muke!
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