Re: THEORY: Adpositional Heads
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 11, 2003, 18:15 |
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Joe scripsit:
> I don't think I've ever heard 'our Father who is in heaven' 'who art',
> 'which art' and just 'in heaven', but never 'who is in heaven'
The point is, in English we use a relative clause (in all but very modern
versions) when we don't need to, because we are calquing the Latin version
which did need to.
Googling shows "who is" with about 3600 hits, "who art" with about 32,800,
"which art" with about 16,000, and no relative clause with about 48,000.
So "who is" is a minority taste but not unknown. Me, I'm an agnostic.
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