Ed is
> wondering how members of ATEG would explain "as many travelers will
> remember" in the following sentence from the opening paragraph of James'
> "Daisy Miller":
>
> There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is the
> business of  the place, which, as many travelers will remember, is seated
> upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake--a lake that it behooves every
> tourist to visit.
>

One response has analyzed the "as" clause as some sort of adverb; another
has analysed it as a type of relative clause.

I suggest that the clause in question has absolutely no grammatical role
in the larger syntactic structure.  It is, rather, an embedded discourse
marker, similar to the embedded declarative (I think that is the correct
term, but I don't have my Pence & Emery at hand) in the following version:

        There are, indeed, many hotels. . .which, I think, is seated upon
the edge of a . . .lake.

The "as many travelers will remember" clause parallels the embedded
declarative "I think."

The clause has absolutely no grammatical role in the sentence, as doesn't
also, by the way, the word, "indeed."  Further, this clause does not
modify the semantic structure of the basic proposition asserted in the
sentence.  Despite its punctuation, it is very much only a parenthetical
expression and it does not bear at all on the meaning of James' sentence,
even though it contributes heavily to the effect.

The better analysis is rhetorical.  The embedded clause works to create
audience.



Virtually, Terry
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