Re: PoS & heretics (was: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others))
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 23, 2000, 13:20 |
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Roger Mills wrote:
> Spanish [...] can invert some (I don't think all) adjectives,
> effectively promoting the adj. to noun status-- un americano joven 'a young
> American' (an american who is young), vs. un joven americano 'a young (male
> person)(who happens to be) American'.
In Italian, suffixed adjectives are restrictive, but prefixed adjectives
are not: "una commedia moderna" is some modern comedy or other, but
"la commedia divina" would suggest some other Divine Comedy than
Dante's.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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