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Article #2005Re: Subject and object confusion (Was: Re: "n'ha"...)
From: Jacques Guy
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:30
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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Newsgroups: sci.lang Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!titan!hal!jbm From: jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy) Subject: Re: Subject and object confusion (Was: Re: "n'ha"...) Message-ID: <1993Jan21.233044.4465@trl.oz.au> Sender: root@trl.oz.au (System PRIVILEGED Account) Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia References: <adamsd.725590369@crash.cts.com> <4490003@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <1993Jan21.052233.17711@trl.oz.au> <1993Jan21.101921.5122@memstvx1.memst.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:30:44 GMT Lines: 18