[Ads-l] Personal pronouns modified with relative clauses

[Chris Waigl]

I don't know. May he who is without sin throw the first stone.

Chris
(jokingly)

On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 2:09 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My recollection is that one of the reasons some people doubt that Japanese
> “pronouns” are actually pronouns is that they can take relative clauses,
> and that in languages like English, they cannot. To invent an example in
> both languages:
>
> スーパにいた僕を見た。(suupa-ni ita boku-wo mita)
> * (somebody) saw me who was in the grocery store.
>
> Today I saw an article in which former President Donald Trump violates
> this rule. Here is that article and another quote. Is this idiolect or
> dialect?
>
>
> https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-asks-can-doj-charge-lawyers-meet-feds-rcna87770
> Dareh Gregorian
> 5 Jun 2023
> ###
> "How can DOJ possibly charge me, who did nothing wrong, when no other
> president's were charged," Trump wrote on Truth Social in an all-caps post.
> ###
>
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/26/politics/donald-trump-press-conference-analysis/index.html
> Chris Cillizza
> 26 Sep 2018
> ###
> “I’ve been accused … by four or five women, who got paid a lot of money to
> make up stories about me who made a lot of money,” Trump said.
> ###
>
> Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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