{"id":22776,"date":"2015-12-09T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=22776"},"modified":"2015-12-09T18:39:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T23:39:31","slug":"the-haystacks-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=22776","title":{"rendered":"*The Haystack's Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6429\/from-a-new-english-grammar-jeff-dolven\" target=\"_blank\">The Paris Review<\/a><\/em>, Winter 2015:<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From \u201cA New English Grammar\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"author\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Jeff Dolven<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"detail-poetry-description\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>*The Haystack\u2019s Painting<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The haystack\u2019s painting hangs in the Met;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> the painting of the haystack, that is,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> the one by Monet, not by van Gogh,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">the rose-blue, snow-lit one with the haystack<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> in it. The haystack has this deal<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> with many painters, also Millet,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">appearing not for a fee, nor a stake,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> exactly, but for the sovereign right<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> to have your eyes back whenever it wants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*By convention, an asterisk indicates an instance of improper \u00adusage. All \u00adtitles are drawn from such examples of bad grammar in Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Also <em>*They Resemble Closely<\/em>, <em>*Either Boy Has a Key<\/em>, and <em>*An Asleep Child<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For additional linguistic background, see<\/p>\n<p>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=646\" target=\"_blank\">A correlate of animacy<\/a>\", 9\/27\/2008<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1805\" target=\"_blank\">The genitive of lifeless things<\/a>\", 10\/11\/2009<br \/>\n\"<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=10089\" target=\"_blank\">Mechanisms for gradual language change<\/a>\", 2\/9\/2014<\/p>\n<p>[h\/t Dmitri Tymoczko]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearing in The Paris Review, Winter 2015: From \u201cA New English Grammar\u201d Jeff Dolven *The Haystack\u2019s Painting The haystack\u2019s painting hangs in the Met; the painting of the haystack, that is, the one by Monet, not by van Gogh, the rose-blue, snow-lit one with the haystack in it. 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