relative "that" again

[Mark Mandel]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Several weeks ago we had a lengthy discussion on the ATEG list
> (Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar, a group within NCTE) on
> whether "that" in relative clauses like
>
> The guy that you met at the airport...
>
> is a pronoun or simply the same subordinating conjunstion as in a content
> clause
>
> I know that you met the guy at the airport.
>
> I argued, drawing on Jespersen, my own Language paper (1976), and a
> more thorough discussion in Huddleston&Pullum, that it's simply a
> subordinator, and I think the case is overwhelming, with almost no
> evidence to the contrary.


Can you please give full citations for these refs? I'm not challenging them,
I'd just like to be able to see them.

m a m

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