Re: Female Dative in German

António Marques wrote:
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> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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> > How could you possibly talk to a French-speaker, who would think the
> > sun is a man and the moon a woman?
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> How natural is it to elide the latter 'is'? ('the moon [is] a woman')?

Natural enough that it was one of the first phenomena to get a name in
Chomskyan grammar: "gapping."
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