not the one who owns a hair salon

[navi tasan]

1) I am talking about Jane's cousin who works in a supermarket, not the one who owns a hair salon.
2) I am talking about Jane's cousin who works in a supermarket, not the cousin of hers who owns a hair salon.

Which of these sentences is correct?

 

[emsr2d2]

1) I am talking about Jane's cousin who works in a supermarket, not the one who owns a hair salon.
2) I am talking about Jane's cousin who works in a supermarket, not the cousin of hers her cousin who owns a hair salon.

With my change to #2, they're both correct.

 

[jutfrank]

What kind of correctness are you wondering about?

 

[Tarheel]

@navi tasan Such ambiguity as you manage to find is not the norm. For one thing, we would probably refer to that person by his/her name, not "Jane's cousin".

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you all very much,

I don't see any ambiguity in those sentence. To me the meaning is clear. I just wanted to see if the sentences are grammatically correct.

 

[jutfrank]

What do you think might be grammatically incorrect about them?

 

[Tarheel]

Thank you all very much,

I don't see any ambiguity in those sentenceS. To me the meaning is clear. I just wanted to see if the sentences are grammatically correct.

The grammar is fine.

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you both very much,

I always find 'the noun of possessive pronoun' (eg. the cousin of hers) strange, but I think it can work if there is no lack of parallelism, as in my example.

 

[Tarheel]

I wouldn't expect another native speaker to know what that (the noun of possessive pronoun) means. In any case, "her cousin" is, in my humble opinion, much more likely than the other one.