[DCRM-L] Title and Statement of Responsibility Area

[Deborah J. Leslie]

Ah, I'm getting it now! Thanks for explaining it further. You're
suggesting there we use both the concept and phrasing of "grammatically
inseparable" when discussing transposition, but to keep DCRB's
"grammatically necessary" when discussing what may be omitted. Is it
only in 1E8 that you are recommending using "grammatically necessary?" 
Other thoughts? 
D.
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Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.
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Subject: RE: [DCRM-L] Title and Statement of Responsibility Area

I agree entirely that it's usually helpful to retain qualifications.
Clearly I should have picked a less illustrious bunch than the Royal
Society for my example!

The question, though, is when it's possible to drop qualifications, and
my argument is against the change from DCRB's "grammatically necessary"
to "grammatically inseparable." The two phrases may have been intended
as equivalent, but I feel a significant difference. In a construction
like "John Smith of the Royal Society," "of the Royal Society" depends
on "John Smith" and cannot be transposed to some other position. It is
thus grammatically inseparable. But it is not grammatically necessary,
and could be dropped without disturbing the grammar of what remains.
In a construction like "scritto dal padre Zamboni," however, "dal padre"
is grammatically inseparable, but also grammatically necessary to make
the syntactic connection between "scritto" and "Zamboni." It can't be
dropped where "of the Royal Society" can, even though both are
inseparable. I think the concept of "grammatically inseparable" as
introduced in 1B1.1 works perfectly well in explaining when
transposition is impossible, but it doesn't seem relevant to omission.
I'm lookiing forward to your handbook on best practices!