FYI
Just in case anybody’s wondering, relative clause extraposition “out of” a definite NP in English is very very rare. And I would know, since I can’t even get 50 good, solid tokens of that construction to show for my Information Structure and Word Order Variation project.
DUE TOMORROW >:-o wah.
emma :: Jul.25.2007 :: linguistics :: 3 Comments »
Remind me what the phenomenon is? Is it stuff like “I talked to the man yesterday who you recommended”? ’cause there’s a lot of that on Google…?
Exactly stuff like that! And yes, very very common on Google–not so common when looking in Treebank :-(
I hear things like that all the time. Too bad Treebank doesn’t.