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Re: cases (nom/acc vs sub/obj)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, September 14, 2000, 4:23
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> I'd better explain. The subject is defined (at least in some theories) > as the noun phrase in the sentence that can co-ordinate, like in > > I-NOM brushed my teeth-ACC and combed my hair-ACC
But what about: John-NOM tied and George-NOM cut the rope-ACC. I admit this isn't quite as perspicuous as the preceding example, but it sure doesn't seem ungrammaticaly to me. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter