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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Approprite Nouns

What is an appropriate noun? Can you help me out?

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From an on-line abstract: The notion of appropriate sequence as introduced by Z. Harris provides a powerful syntactic way of analysing the detailed meaning of various sentences, including ambiguous ones. In an adjectival sentence like The leather was yellow, the introduction of an appropriate noun , here colour, specifies which quality the adjective describes .

  • From an on-line abstract: The notion of appropriate sequence as introduced by Z.
  • Harris provides a powerful syntactic way of analysing the detailed meaning of various sentences, including ambiguous ones.
  • In an adjectival sentence like The leather was yellow, the introduction of an appropriate noun , here colour, specifies which quality the adjective describes .
  • In some other adjectival sentences with an appropriate noun, that noun plays the same part as colour and seems to be relevant to the description of the adjective.
  • These appropriate nouns can usually be used in elementary sentences like The leather had some colour, but in many cases they have a more or less obligatory modifier.
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From an on-line abstract:

The notion of appropriate sequence as introduced by Z. Harris provides a powerful syntactic way of analysing the detailed meaning of various sentences, including ambiguous ones. In an adjectival sentence like The leather was yellow, the introduction of an appropriate noun, here colour, specifies which quality the adjective describes. In some

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