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Re: Science press release of possible interest
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"Spruiell, William C" <[log in to unmask]>
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Jan and Craig,



The Language article uses examples in which the adjective is conjoined to another adjective modified by a prepositional phrase -- e.g. "_____ and proud of himself".



--- Bill Spruiell





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Subject: Re: Science press release of possible interest



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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