Re: THEORY: NATLANGS: Pro-Forms
| From: | Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 17:17 |
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Kit La Touche wrote:
> Maybe more possible, but as the purpose of proforms *seems* to be to
> allow grammatical sentences that don't repeat all the common ground,
> and adjectives are essentially optional, it would be of small use:
> consider, talking about 'the red dog', would you say 'the pro-adj
> dog' or just 'the dog'?
Assume a spherical cow. SUCH A cow would...
We do have noun-attached (I'm not going to involve myself in any
arguments about whether it's an adjective or not, but it substitutes for
them) pro-forms in English.
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Shreyas
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