Re: THEORY: Xpositions in Ypositional languages {X,Y}={pre,post}
| From: | Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 23, 2007, 16:12 |
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In the last episode, (On Sunday 23 September 2007 13:47:37), Philip Newton
wrote:
> On 9/23/07, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> > Among the more
> > exotic possibilities is to a stranded preposition of an embedded relative
> > clause, eg _killen jag åt lunch meds bil_ "the car of the guy I ate lunch
> > with",
>
> Or "The guy I ate lunch with's car"? :)
>
> Cheers,
Yes, but that doesn't make clear that construction in English's continued
awkwardness ;-)
Jeff
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