"I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> it's an instance of "that" (reanalyzed from complementizer to
> relative pronoun) in the genitive, as noted.
>

Well, that's certainly the clearest, simplest, and most obvious
explanation. Surely, no one wishes to assert a contradictory analysis.


I can't keep a straight face! The analysis is so obvious that I should
have gone with my first mind and given the sentence just an [NT], of
interest only because someone had written_that's_ instead of only
speaking it. Failing that, my suggested "analysis" should have had a
:-) after it.

"Sorry about that," to coin a phrase.

--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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