Speaking of double determiners

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Oct 17 03:58:27 UTC 2001


At 12:18 AM -0400 10/17/01, Alice Faber wrote:
>
>>  The Drive won the Broncos the AFC. Jeter's play played
>>  a part in winning game 4 of an ALDS.
>>
>
>Elway's "The Drive", necessarily, was less of an accomplishment than Jeter's
>catch, since football is by several orders of magnitude more a team game
>than is baseball.

A good minimal pair would be with "The Catch" in football, made by
Dwight Clark on a pass from Joe Montana in 1981 or so to win a
playoff game for the 49ers over the Cowboys and propel the former to
qualify for the first in their string of Super Bowl victories.

larry



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