Tr: Re: Resumptive pronoun?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 28, 2001, 8:41 |
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Well, twice in a row! I'm very very sorry...
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En réponse à claudio <claudio.soboll@...>:
> well perhaps you are right.
> but at least the existance of pro-phrases (pro-form for more than one
> term) is one of my conlang's core features.
>
> example sentence:
> "walking through an dark slum-alley by night in san francisco is really
> exciting. but *it* is dangerous too."
> "it" is referring not to a single nound but rather to the whole
> phrase: "walking through an dark slum-alley at night in san francisco"
>
> are there any natural languages which express this concept already ?
>
Well, English :) , as you just showed. French has "ça", which as a resumptive
often refers to whole phrases rather than individual items.
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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Christophe.
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