whose一定指代人吗？是否有指代物的嫌疑？

brissa

例og 141

141. Unlike transplants between identical twins, whose genetic endowment is the same, all patients receiving hearts or other organs must take antirejection drugs for the rest of their lives.

og解释中没提whose是否有指代歧义。但我想whose表谁的，那也有可能是人的，也有可能是物的，所以如果whose前面有两个名词可以指代的话，就出现了歧异。就象这题，whose可以指twins,也可以指transplants.所以whose的用法是错误的。

请nn指正

leonchan

这么说 好像也有点道理 顶 看

三脚猫

但是whose只能指代人啊？？？

想旅游的笨蛋

18.   The capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo’s population on the eve of the First World War was 51,919.

(A) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo’s population

(B) Bosnia-Herzegovina is Sarajevo, whose population

(C) Bosnia-Herzegovina is Sarajevo, with a population

(D) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo having a population that（B）

(E) Bosnia-Herzegovina, the population of Sarajevo

brissa

以下是引用三脚猫在2005-9-1 15:08:00的发言：
但是whose只能指代人啊？？？

不一定指代人吧，"××的"从中文上看也可以物啊

brissa

既然想旅游的笨蛋举了一个whose不指代人的例子，想由此推广的问问，是否以后看到whose都要多想一下是否指人指物有歧异的问题了？

想旅游的笨蛋

举个例子，即“---+n，whose---”

如果n指人的话，大家都没问题，如果whose前面是物，则根据whose引导的从句，从逻辑上判断 是否正确!

brissa

以下是引用想旅游的笨蛋在2005-9-8 15:24:00的发言：

举个例子，即“---+n，whose---”

如果n指人的话，大家都没问题，如果whose前面是物，则根据whose引导的从句，从逻辑上判断 是否正确!

那如果whose前面既有人，又有物，whose到底是无条件优先指代人呢，还是要分析一下语法结构看是否指代有歧异？

饼子叨叨

lp就首先杀了。。。

Binhomekong

OG18-689也是类似的unlike....whose，whose 指代ants

Unlike the nests of leaf cutters and most other ants, situated underground or in pieces of wood, raider ants make a portable nest by entwining their long legs to form “curtains” of ants that hang from logs or boulders, providing protection for the queen and the colony larvae and pupae.

    A the nests of leaf cutters and most other ants,
    B the nests of leaf cutters and most other ants, which are
    C leaf cutters and most other ants, whose nests are
    D leaf cutters and most other ants in having nests
    E those of leaf cutters and most other ants with nests

然后我在网上搜【chasedream】ChaseDreamGMATPrep2008语法笔记里面找到一条传统语法里，whose可以指代人也可以指代物。。。。这是对的吗？