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

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From: Pierre Jelenc
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:03

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In article <38367@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> bro@elm.circa.ufl.edu (John Bro) writes:
># By the way, aren't there some French constructions where it's unclear
># whether a noun following an infinitive is an object or subject?  
># 
>#         Wir lassen ihn nicht operieren.
>#         'We won't let him operate.'
>#         'We won't let him be operated on.'
># 
>The French translation is equally ambiguous:
>
>	On ne le laissera pas operer/opere'  (no phon. distinction)
>

        Except that one would not say "on ne le laissera pas ope're'".
        The verb must be expressed somewhere, thus:

     On ne le laissera pas ope'rer
     On ne le laissera pas e^tre ope're'


Pierre Jelenc                        pcj1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu 
                                    Columbia University, New York

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