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Re: Vocab lists

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Monday, June 23, 2003, 17:56
Quoting JS Bangs <jaspax@...>:

> John Cowan sikyal: > > > Roger Mills scripsit: > > > > > Then there's the famous McCawley couplet: > > > "They named their child Fafnir" > > > "They named their child something strange" (This distinction was also a > > > problem in Kash) > > > > I don't understand this, though it reminds me of: > > I believe it's meant to illustrate the contrast between "They named the > child <name>" and "They named the child <description of name>".
Isn't it supposed to be an example of secondary predication, such as "They swept the floor clean" (= They swept the floor such that the floor was clean)? The two sentences clearly behave differently: "What did they name their child? Fafnir." *"What did they name their child strange? Something." "What did they name their child? Something strange." ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637

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