Re: Degrees of volition in active languages
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 14, 2000, 19:02 |
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On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:
> > A classic example of a garden
> > path sentence is "The horse raced past the barn fell down".
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> IS that grammatical? I can't think of any situation where "raced past
> the barn" could be used as a relative phrase, at least in my dialect.
Try substituting "ridden" for "raced" - does it work now?
Irina
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