[Ads-l] Heard: "I learned about it...

[Wilson Gray]

Here's a potential variant that I don't know whether anybody is going to
find acceptable:

"That's a child such that I don't know anybody who's willing to adopt it".

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:22 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Reminds me of Kuno's example: "That's a child who I don't know anybody
> who's willing to adopt".  The CNPC can be overridden as long as the
> relative clause conveys a straightforward property of the head. In Kuno's
> case, this is supported by the availability of the non-complex paraphrase
> "That's an unadoptable child" (cf. the much worse "That's a child who I
> know the couple who's hoping to adopt").  In your case, maybe something
> like "a text message {of unknown provenance/from who knows where}".
>
> LH
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:14 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > from a text-message that I don't know who sent."
> >
> > --
> > -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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-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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