Re: Pseudo-cleft ``who''

Brian M. Scott wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:34:40 GMT, Ron Hardin
> <rhhardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in sci.lang:
>
> > John Atkinson wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >>> Note, eg., restrictive relative clauses can't have a proper noun as
> >>> antecedent.
>
> >> Sure as hell can in my dialect.
>
> And in mine. 'Would the Brittany who put only her given name on
> her paper please raise her hand?'

Nor can you use a definite article with a proper name. The result is to make
``Brittany'' not a proper name, so that a restrictive relative pronoun can follow it.

The substitution of a proper name seems to be a good test for a restrictive
relative clause vs annex clause, in fact.

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