displaced relative clause

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/1/2012 05:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Me too, but I'm a hypereducated pointyhead.

My kinship too is with close relatives, and I try to aid those who
are displaced.

Joel


>JL
>
>On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Michael Newman
><michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu>wrote:
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> > Ok, two of you find it ok. Maybe I'm over analyzing, but I think I'd say
> > it with the relative right after the modified N.
> >
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> >
> >
> > Michael Newman
> > Associate Professor of Linguistics
> > Queens College/CUNY
> > michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu
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> > On Jul 1, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > > Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > > Subject:      Re: displaced relative clause
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> > > Sounds normal to me too.
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >> Subject:      Re: displaced relative clause
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> > >> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Michael Newman
> > >> <michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu> wrote:
> > >>> African American English
> > >>
> > >> That's true. I'm not even sure what it is that you find abnormal about
> > >> that string.
> > >>
> > >> OTOH, I'd write
> > >>
> > >> "African-American"
> > >>
> > >> or, simply,
> > >>
> > >> "BE."
> > >>
> > >> BTW, y'all know that there's a Facebook SIG with the name,
> > >>
> > >> "Don't Call Me 'African-American'!"?
> > >>
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