Re: THEORY: Deriving adjectives from nouns

Jim Henry wrote:

> On 4 Jun 99, at 12:28, Charles wrote:
> > Matthias once gratiously provided this other headache:
> > "nice dancer" vs "nicely dancing one". (I cannot
> > bring myself to say "nicely dancer"!)
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.
One's natlang habits can be misleading. I once read
an online graduate seminar about adverbs/adjectives
that addressed this kind of example, but found it
unconvincing and now I can't find the URL ...

> dancer whose person is nice
> fliqnx-tla  fax-txox-fwa
> dans-isto  am-et-iga
> dancer love-(diminutive)-inducing
>
> dancer whose dancing is nice
> fliqnx-sunx-tla
> bon-dans-isto
> dance-competent-professional
"There's more than one way to do it" is the Perl motto.
I think your way will work.

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