Re: Genitives NPs as Relative Clauses
| From: | Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 15, 2001, 11:08 |
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Ar 05:37 15/11/01 -0500, bhac David Peterson le scríobh chugam:
>In a message dated 11/14/01 10:37:00 PM, kmgaughan@EIRCOM.NET writes:
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><< In my (English) idiolect, it's not uncommon for me to use genitive
>constructions
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>in the place of relative clauses. Example:
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> My idiolect: ...of my seeing...
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> `Normal English': ...that I see... >>
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> I'm very, very confused by this. Do you mean to say that a phrase like,
>"The man of my seeing is walking into a plate glass window" means, to you,
>"The man that I see..."!?
Yup!
> How did this come to be?
Good question. The problem with it is that I have no idea where the idiom
originates. It is rather `unique', I think :-)
K.
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