Re: Pseudo-cleft ``who''

Brian M. Scott wrote:
> So what? I've no problem with
>
> That it was a politician who nominated them caused the
> trouble.
>
> (with, of course, a different meaning).

There are two possible meanings for it, depending on whether
the ``who'' heads a restrictive relative clause or an annex clause.

That ``who'' slips over into annex clauses is what causes the unease,
allowing shades of both meanings as echoes at the same time.

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Ron Hardin
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