In いっすんぼうし, a very popular fairy tale, this line appears:
だいじんは からだは ちいさいけれど げんきな
いっすんぼうしを たいそう きにいり
じぶんの いえで はたらかせることにしました。
Is 「だいじんは からだは」 grammatically correct? What would be done to make this more correct?
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It couldn't be more correct. – user4092 Nov 11 '14 at 02:52
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I thought it was, but I've never seen it before, so I'm a bit curious about it. – molonsha Nov 11 '14 at 02:55
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2Why did you believe it was incorrect? What rule did you think the construction violated? – jkerian Nov 11 '14 at 05:05
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The sequence 体は小さいけれど元気な serves as an adjectival block which modifies [一寸法師]{いっすんぼうし}. 体は小さいけれど元気な一寸法師 is object of the verb 気に入り, in turn. [大臣]{だいじん}(は) is its subject. So, the whole sentence has kind of a nested structure, and the two は belong to different levels respectively.
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