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Re: Subject and object confusion (Was: Re: "n'ha"...)

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From: Jacques Guy
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:30
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connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:


>This shortcoming is hardly peculiar.  *Many* languages lose the ability
>to distinguish subject and object in certain situations.  Here's a
>German example:

>	Das ist die Frau, die meine Grossmutter ermordet hat.
>	'That is the woman who killed my grandmother.'
>	'That is the woman whom my grandmother killed.'

Yes, so in Latin (e.g. Catullus: dic mi te me amare), but in the
Breton case, if memory serves me (I can't find my Breton grammar, 
koc'h!) that confusion could arise in the simplest sentence, i.e.
a single, main clause. 

I must try harder to locate that grammar.
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