Re: THEORY: Deriving adjectives from nouns
| From: | Joshua Shinavier <ajshinav@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 8, 1999, 8:00 |
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> Consider that "pretty" can mean "attractive" or "quite", thus it could
> be "attractive little girls' school" or "quite little girls' school". I
> can see the following meanings (ignoring the phonological ambiguity
> between "girl's" and "girls'"
I think we were deliberately excluding both of those -- pretty =3D beautifu=
l,
not very in this case. I also assumed one specific role for the genetive o=
f
"girls'" as well -- belonging to girls, for girls, run by girls, whatever;
you could think of any number of possible interpretations for this "of" lin=
k;
I've handled them all as one relation -- otherwise, yes, there are far more
than ten interpretations, but I don't care to count them all!
Josh
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