Predicative/attributive - position and function
Iver Larsen
alice-iver_larsen at wycliffe.org
Mon Jan 22 16:30:10 EST 2001
> Dear Iver,
> thanks for your insightful comments. Let me ask some questions.
>
> [Iver]
> > How could the default
> > order DENDRON KALON be made specific by use of the article? The
> obvious thing to
> > do is to repeat the article before the adjective to indicate that
> in this case
> > the adjective is part of the NP, so we get
> > TO DENDRON TO KALON for "the good tree".
> >
>
> [Moon]
> How does repeating the article before the adjective indicate
> that the adjective is part of the NP?
We are moving along well. Will you be asking your questions one at a time?
Before I try to answer your question, which is not easy, would you try to answer
mine: How else could the default order of the NP: DENDRON KALON be made specific
by use of the article, when you cannot say TO DENDRON KALON and still keep it as
one NP? Nor can you say TO KALON DENDRON, because then it would no longer be
unmarked in relation to emphasis.
Iver Larsen
Kolding, Denmark
alice-iver_larsen at wycliffe.org
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