Re: THEORY: Adpositional Heads

Muke Tevor wrote:
> > "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.?
Yeah.  My favorite such phrase is "poor me" -- which can be the subject
of a sentence, despite the pronoun being in the objective case!  And
there's no such phrase as "poor I" (so it's pretty obvious that we're not
really dealing with a pronoun here).  And when "poor me" serves as the
subject of a sentence, it takes third-person forms of the "to be" verb,
as if the speaker weren't referring to himself.  I suspect that  "poor
me" and "alter ego" (et al) are compound nouns.

>
> > 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.
Yeah.