Re: center embedding of relative clauses

Henry S. Thompson (ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
Tue, 12 Mar 96 13:35:14 GMT

I think it's perfectly possible to come up with acceptable
center-embeddings. It's been remarked before that using certain
pronouns and padding with adverbs improves things:

The report which the paper nearly everybody reads regularly carried
yesterday asserted that the end was in sight.

ht