conundrum

[anne marie devlin]

What was most interesting about this conundrum for me was the fact that in Russian, the plural could be used after after, if I can remember conditerskaya i makaronnaya fabriki.  In English, it is obvious that a plural can't be used after 'a'.  therefore it is more interesting that a plural can be used in Russian after a singular adjective and I'm surprised that the thread hasn't picked up on that.
AM
 



Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 20:04:42 +0000
From: pjcorness at HOTMAIL.COM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] conundrum
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu





There are some (to me) slightly puzzling uses of English by native speakers amongst this correspondence, presumably intended to assist non-native speakers.
I beg to differ about Paul Gallagher's claim that, talking about factories, one cannot say:
"We built a big one, an expensive one, and a pasta one." Paul writes:


> Agreed. But nouns cannot be used with "one" the way adjectives can:
> We built a big, expensive, pasta factory.
> We built a big one, an expensive one, and a *pasta one.

On the other hand, I also find the use of myself instead of the anticipated me incongruous in the following statement


"Though you can, of course, always ask Paul Gallagher and myself and split the difference."
cf:

You can ask yourself

I can ask myself 
You can ask *myself

Patrick Corness




Patrick Corness, Visiting Research Fellow
Centre for Translation Studies, University of Leeds
blog: patrickcorness.wordpress.com






> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 15:58:54 +0100
> From: John.Dunn at GLASGOW.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [SEELAN------------------------------------------------------------------------- Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription options, and more. Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 		 	   		  
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription
  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at:
                    http://seelangs.home.comcast.net/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/seelang/attachments/20120505/e0c979f0/attachment.html>