Re: "Difficult" clauses

"We spent all night talking about I can't remember what."
"She bought I lost count how many kinds of cheese."

--And.

taliesin the storyteller, On 09/05/2007 15:02:
> Taruven is nearing (syntactic) completeness, and I'm looking for
> complex clauses to test with. What's your favorite sentences to
> test things like clause embedding, clause chaining, long
> distance anaphora etc., and what types of "hard" problems am I
> missing?
>
> There's a trick to this question: I'm not looking for problems
> due to semantic phenomena (as the vocab is, uhm, lagging behind
> the syntax more than just a little...). So things similar to
> "colorless green dreams sleep furiously", which supposedly makes
> no sense (but I can imagine it or translate it  easily enough)
> but have a very simple syntactic structure, are all out of the
> running.
>
> I tried legal and medical texts but got bogged down in not
> knowing enough latin for anything to make sense enough for me to
> discover the syntactic structures :)
>
>
> t.
>