<div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 30, 2017 23:09, "Lieven" <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de" target="_blank">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-6241589768112416006quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="m_-6241589768112416006quoted-text">Am 30.08.2017 um 20:32 schrieb Steven Boozer:<br>
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I’m not quite sure I understand what Lieven’s FaceBook critic meant by “some kind of tool”, but here are a few purpose clauses that probably don’t – depending on how you analyze them - involve “purpose nouns”:</blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm not sure what Lieven means by "tool" since a {rojHom} isn't a tool. There are plenty of purpose clauses modifying nouns which aren't tools. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="m_-6241589768112416006quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Very often, there are two ways to interpet such constructions, for instance<br>
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*Dochvetlh DIlmeH Huch 'ar DaneH*<br>
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I'm sure this is not {DIlmeH Huch} but a separate phrase {Dochvetlh DIlmeH} + {Huch 'ar DaneH}</blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Really? I think this is {[Dochvetlh DIlmeH Huch] 'ar DaneH?} and not *{Dochvetlh DIlmeH, Huch 'ar DaneH?}, because in the latter case, I'd expect {Dochvetlh vIDIlmeH, Huch 'ar DaneH?}</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">-- </div><div dir="auto">De'vID</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="m_-6241589768112416006quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></div></div></div></div>