clausal possessives

[Dennis R. Preston]

What's the horror?

dInIs (who is easily horrified)

>>... you'd have such horrors as "This is the woman's I used to date who
>>knew my grandfather hat."
>
>Instead of ones such as "This is the woman I used to date who knew my
>grandfather's hat."
>
>-- Doug Wilson


Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
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