Re: [tied] Re: Marked nominative

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 21981
Date: 2003-05-17

Aquila:
>Vedo la macchina. La macchina la vedo. = I see the car.

Brian:
>I believe that Spanish does something similar: El coche, lo
>compr� Elena. But I'd classify this as a syntactic device.

You can get away with it in French I think: "L'automobile, je
la vois". But you need the subject there. You can't say
**"L'automobile, la vois".


- gLeN

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