tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 20 23:21:47 1994
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Re: KLBC: jItagh
On Tue, 20 Sep 1994 [email protected] wrote:
> This is not apposition. Apposition is when two nouns fill a single verb
> role, as in: "I saw my brother, the doctor." In this case, the verb has only
> one object role, and it is filled by both "my brother" and "the doctor."
>
> With "call," it's harder to see, because both noun phrases appear to have the
> same reference; but they're different. One identifies the object, and the
> other identifies the name of the object. "They call the wind Mariah." [I
> love Kay and the Kees!] You could stick in a noun phrase in apposition with
> "the wind," such as "the breeze from the north": "They call the wind, the
> breeze from the north, Mariah." See?
So is there a name for this then? I see your point, but I'm completely
confused as to just what, linguistically, IS going on here.
janSIy }}:+D>