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Re: Genitives NPs as Relative Clauses

From:Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date:Thursday, November 15, 2001, 11:08
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: > ><< In my (English) idiolect, it's not uncommon for me to use genitive >constructions > >in the place of relative clauses. Example: > > My idiolect: ...of my seeing... > > `Normal English': ...that I see... >> > > 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. -- Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> http://homepage.eircom.net/~kmgaughan/ I can decide what I give / But it's not up to me / What I get given -=Bjork=-

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