clausal possessives

[Dennis R. Preston]

Alice,

I've got an overactive pragmatic component.

dInIs

>At 9:50 PM -0400 10/22/2000, Dennis R. Preston wrote, ostensibly about Re:
>clausal possessives:
>>What's the horror?
>>
>>dInIs (who is easily horrified)
>>
>>>>... you'd have such horrors as "This is the woman's I used to date who
>>>>knew my grandfather hat."
>>>
>>>Instead of ones such as "This is the woman I used to date who knew my
>>>grandfather's hat."
>
>Well, would you want to date someone who'd been on intimate terms with a
>rather old piece of headgear?
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Dennis R. Preston
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