tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 03 08:23:40 1994
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Re: Statistics on Relative Clauses usage
- From: [email protected] (Nick NICHOLAS)
- Subject: Re: Statistics on Relative Clauses usage
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 13:22:16 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Feb 2, 94 10:27 am
Hu'tegh! nuq ja' Mark E. Shoulson jay'?
=Nick, you're something. Stats on relative clauses. Wow. I'm not sure how
=many grains of salt I'm taking them with, nor even if I believe them to
=mean all that much to start with yet.
Um... Mark, I'm quite serious. I was intending them to prove things like
that -'e' is not yet obligatory in relative clauses in anyone's usage,
inasmuch as we can rely on the number of clauses excerpted (which I think
we can), that people aren't doing the "ship in which we fled" thing,
and that people *are* using relative clauses in oblique positions.
Consider my brow furrowed... why would they not mean that much to start
with? vIyajbe'.
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