clausal possessives

[Steve K.]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> One of my former students, n ow a profesisonal journalist with a major TRexas
> newspaper, writes:
>
> <<this is my newest article. i'm just waiting for the people i wrote about's
> family members to come kill me>>
>
> Isn't English a wonderful language!

I love displaced 's. I hear it in people I talk with's speech all the
time. :) For some reason it doesn't bother me at all.

--- Steve K.