=46rom Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:
> Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 05/06/99 18:42:30 , Charles (?) a =E9crit :=
> =
> > I've changed my mind. If "he is an early arriver" is OK,
> > then the "early" is an adverb modifying a noun,
> > or at least the verb that is inside the noun.
> =
> i don't find this example very good because "early" always refers to a
> process so it cannot but refer to "arrive-" in "arrive-r".
Certainly in English one may say "He is early". So an "early arriver"
may be (and usually is) one who arrives early, but the conjunctive
reading "he is early and (independently) an arriver" is also at least
conceivable. But I agree that the example "nice dancer" is much
better.
Lojban of course deals with these ambiguities by expressing the
conjunctive reading with an explicit conjunction.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)