displaced relative clause

[Michael Newman]

Ok, two of you find it ok. Maybe I'm over analyzing, but I think I'd say it with the relative right after the modified N.




Michael Newman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Queens College/CUNY
michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu



On Jul 1, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> Sounds normal to me too.
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> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Michael Newman
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>>> African American English
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>> That's true. I'm not even sure what it is that you find abnormal about
>> that string.
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>> OTOH, I'd write
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>> "African-American"
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>> or, simply,
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>> "BE."
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>> BTW, y'all know that there's a Facebook SIG with the name,
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>> "Don't Call Me 'African-American'!"?
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