Timeline for Contingent grammaticality
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| Mar 5, 2014 at 9:28 | comment | added | Olivier | In fairness to Heck & Cueartero, they don't claim that "She gives a blanket to me who is cold" is grammatical; their example is "He had the nerve to say that to me, who has made him what he is today", which is subtly different. I'd be curious to know how native speakers rate this sentence. Its French counterpart is ungrammatical, contrary to what they claim (footnote 15 notwithstanding). | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 19:01 | comment | added | P Elliott | That Heck & Cuartero paper has some pretty bizarre judgements in it. "She gives a blanket to me who is cold" also sounds horrific to me. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 9:57 | comment | added | Olivier | I must say I disagree with your assessment: Heck & Cuartero seems to consider that She gives a blanket to me who is cold is grammatical (section 5.1) and then proceeds to analyze it whereas @ColinFine considers it ungrammatical. So they are at cross-purpose, so to speak. That said, thanks a lot for this reference, which suggests a nice explanation for a strange agreeing mistake that just about all French children make and which had been puzzling me for a while. | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 22:50 | comment | added | Koldito | Incidentally, I believe that ineffability is a better term for this pattern than "contingent grammaticality". | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 22:49 | history | answered | Koldito | CC BY-SA 3.0 |