clausal possessives

[Cynthia Bernstein]

Of course the 's in this examples is not really displaced.  The 's attaches to the
NP not the N.
Cindy Bernstein

Mai Kuha wrote:

> A friend of mine, when expected to play an ice-breaker game at a
> gathering, protested: "In this game, you have to put your hand on the
> person in front of you's head. I don't want to put my hand on the person
> in front of me's head!"
>
> -Mai
>
> 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!
> >
>
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