Re: Genitives NPs as Relative Clauses

--- Keith Gaughan froge sionk:
> Ar 09:09 15/11/01 -0800, bhac nicole dobrowolski le scríobh chugam:
>
> >--- Keith Gaughan froge sionk:
> >
> > >      Direct relative clause (`that I see'):
> > >          ...of my seeing...
> >
> >well this makes sense to me...
> >
> > >      Indirect relative clauses (`that sees me'):
> > >          ...with my seeing...
> >
> >but this seems to imply (to me anyway) that it's still you (or the
> >owner of my) doing the seeing rather than the one being seen...
>
> But the thing is, `my' is a possessive adjective, not a noun, and
> it's
> attached to `seeing' rather than `with'. Sort of like this:
>
>      [with [my seeing]]
>
> You could rewrite the same thing (awkwardly) as:
>
>      [with [seeing [of me]]]
>
> The square brackets indicating which words are bound to one
> another.
>
ok i think i understand it now... i guess if i were translating it
into english i would have used the more awkward translation...

> Of course, this is also an idiom in a language besides English so
> you don't
> have to do things exactly the same way as in English with relative
> pronouns
> and the like.
>
point taken... thanks for the explanation though...

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