tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560198985086171460.post5046742511132461846..comments2023-06-16T02:22:45.769-07:00Comments on miniatureconlangs: Detail #360: Fun With ComplementizersMiekkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254032879671190589noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560198985086171460.post-70373958766021762812017-12-07T15:54:15.868-08:002017-12-07T15:54:15.868-08:00Thanks for your reply. I'm glad you found it i...Thanks for your reply. I'm glad you found it interesting.<br /><br />I didn't think about "that it is" but that definitely has the same prosody as "that it does" (for me at least). It is a shame that the use is so limited as you mention, now I'd really like to know. The fact that the prosody is different makes me think there might be something going on, but I don't think that gives enough confidence to claim that there's a reanalysis of the phrase occurring.<br /><br />On a separate note, I'm a big fan of your blog. I've recently stumbled upon it and I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up reading the whole thing. Nice work and please keep posting!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560198985086171460.post-37438245302333731332017-12-07T11:03:15.862-08:002017-12-07T11:03:15.862-08:00This is a difficult - but truly interesting - ques...This is a difficult - but truly interesting - question, and I guess the difficulty in part lies in the fact that since 'that' is not uniquely a subordinating conjunction but also a demonstrative, linguists may not have even thought of the possibility here that some parse it the way you suggested.<br /><br />(I bet most people who do grammatical analysis will tend to default to interpreting 'that' as being an anaphor for whatever quality "it does ____".<br /><br />SInce "that it is" and "that it does" are so limited wrt reuse of the entire structure, it's difficult to come up with test clauses where an "anaphoric that" or a "subordinating that" could be ruled out. Such a thing would be pretty awesome, though.Miekkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03254032879671190589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560198985086171460.post-32964985871985865152017-12-06T15:00:59.323-08:002017-12-06T15:00:59.323-08:00Interestingly, English has something that 'app...Interestingly, English has something that 'appears' to work this way:<br /> "Wow, your car goes really fast!"<br /> "That it does!"<br />Also, interestingly, this has a similar effect to the Swedish construction.<br /><br />I don't think this English construction really works in the way you've described though. I believe that this construction has the same syntax as:<br /> "Cake, I like."<br />Where the object is fronted. So it ends up being just a simple restatement:<br /> "That, it does." <-- "It does that."<br /><br />Although, the prosody of "That it does" is different from "Cake, I like", so maybe it has been reanalyzed?<br /><br />What do you think?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com