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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.

Query Details

Query Subject:	Double Possessives
Author:	Zhimin Tong
Submitter Email:	click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):	Morphology Syntax

Query:	I'm a teacher of English with Peking University, China. In my textbook I came across a sentence: My father was a close friend of Albert Einstein According to my limited knowledge of English grammar, it seems Einstein's instead of Einstein should be used. I want to know if both are OK. If the answer is yes, then is there any difference between the two? Would anyone help me? With thanks, Tong Zhimin
LL Issue:	8.1549
Date posted:	29-Oct-1997
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