Re: THEORY: Adpositional Heads
| From: | Rob Haden <magwich78@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 11, 2003, 2:55 |
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:09:21 -0400, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:00:41 -0500, Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
>wrote:
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>>Actually, it's ambiguous. It could describe where the man was. If it's
>>adverbial, then it would describe where the seeing took place, that is,
>>I was in the house, and I saw a man. If it's adjectivial, then it
>>describes where the man was.
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>Exactly my point.
A language that required PPs to modify the verb or noun directly
before/after it would be far less ambiguous, no?
- Rob