Re: Ice tea and Robin Hood
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 24, 2004, 20:04 |
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:04:23 -0400, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
wrote:
> Paul Bennett scripsit:
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>> I'd say it's verging on compoundhood, but it has the stress pattern of a
>> full NP, and not a compound.
>
> Indeed. These things can change, of course: "ice cream" has completely
> displaced earlier "iced cream".
Huh. Yeah. I'd never noticed that, either. This seems like some kind of
weak evidence that GA and RP have different rates of compund-formation
from "Adj/Noun" (or "(Noun->Adj)/Noun"?) pairs[*]. The stress pattern on
(rural North Carolingian) /'a:skr\im/ compares to the UK /'Ajs 'kri:m/ in
much the same way as in the Robin Hood example. Hmm. There might be a
thesis in there somewhere, for a suitably determined student.
[*] please excuse my making up terminological devices on the spot. I never
were too good with that there book-larnin'
Paul
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