Re: THEORY: Deriving adjectives from nouns
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 5, 1999, 14:20 |
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* Charles (catty@pacificnet.net) [990604 21:38]:
> Marcos Franco wrote:
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> > Particularly on that case ("pretty little girl(s)(') school") you have
> > an ambiguity, since it's not clear whether the school is "for girls"
> > or "of the girls".
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> It is a famous test case. There are many possible meanings.
> How many can your conlang unambiguously distinguish,
> and how intuitive are the constructions?
Do you, or anyone else, have an URL that discusses this in more depth,
for instance exactly *which* possible meanings we're talking about?
tal.