Jan,
    The ones that come most readily to my mind are adjective phrases. "I
bought a horse easy to ride." "I want a car faster than his." She
looked for a paint blue as the sea." "He was a man larger than life."
    Of course, we also have the poetic: "When Columbus sailed the ocean
blue..."

Craig
    >


 This is copied from the article.
>
>    "In similar fashion, when a new group of participants witnessed
> ablim used postnominally, but this time in a context in which there was
> a reason for its postnominal use that had nothing to do with ablim
> itself, participants did not learn a restriction against ablim's
> prenominal use. "
>
> Can anyone give me an example of postnominal use of an adjective with a
> reason?
>
> Thanks!
> Jan
>
>
> Quoting "Spruiell, William C" <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>    I ran into this on ScienceDaily, and thought some among the list
> membership might find it interesting and/or useful (the article it’s
> reporting on is in Language, so if you’ve got an LSA membership, you
> already have it). It’s on strategies that learners use to infer
> likely grammatical behavior of novel words.
>
>     
>
>                   
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315093029.htm
>
>     
>
>     
>
>    --- Bill Spruiell
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