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Re: Another Sketch: Palno

From:Alex Fink <000024@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 6:18
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:06:01 -0400, Alex Fink <000024@...> wrote:


>Anyway, slightly sharper example of the "schizophrenia" I was talking about. > Suppose you have a sentence of form ... hm, what's not a too pragmatically >strained example? > arrow [hand me.ACC of].ACC through partial >Is this "an arrow is partially through my hand", taking the adjective at the >end as a clause adverbial? Or is it "there is a partial arrow through my >hand",
Best make this "the arrow through my hand is partial". Otherwise reordering the two stacked modifiers is a way out. (That may still be your intended solution, faik.) Alex