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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks very much for all the
replies to my question. I will sum up all the relevent responses and share it
with all the members later . </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2>Simon said the Chinese
sentence in the last mail cannot be displayed. The sentence
is:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>一件 包装/v n 精美 的 礼品</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>a present with wonderful decoration</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>a present decorated wonderfully</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>Best regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>Xing</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>Xing Fukun</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>Phd candidate for Language Engineering</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>2009-11-02</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2><STRONG>发件人：</STRONG> simon
smith</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2><STRONG>发送时间：</STRONG>
2009-11-02 21:06:33</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2><STRONG>收件人：</STRONG>
xingfukun001@gmail.com; CORPORA@uib.no; mike@lexically.net; Adam
Kilgarriff</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2><STRONG>抄送：</STRONG> </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2><STRONG>主题：</STRONG> Chinese and English
POS</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Hi
everybody,</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">I am puzzled
with the part of speech of "chief" in the phrase "the chief</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">executive
officer". </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></SPAN>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">@Fukun</SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">I think that
your Chinese example sounds interesting, but unfortunately I can't read it. Can
you try again, with a Unicode font?</SPAN></P></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">"Chief" is a
legitimate example of a word that has distinct noun and adjective readings. As
an adjective it means "main" or "principal"; as a noun it means "person in
charge". A "chief executive officer" is of course a "person in charge" too,
but the "chief" part should still be analyzed as "main", I think.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">@Mike: Can you
say any more about the theory that words do not have a pre-determined POS? I
have to confess I had always thought the interpretation of "church" in "church
tower" as an adjective to be nothing more than a non-linguist's
misunderstanding. </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">It seems more
economical to say that any noun can (in principle) modify any other noun, as
part of a noun compound, than to record an additional POS, namely adjective, for
every single noun in the lexicon. I would say, too, that there is no
more reason to make out a special case for substance-item compounds, such
as "gold watch" and "lead balloon", than there is for "radium watch" (G Pullum's
example) or "iridium balloon". </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">However,
theories which assign POS elsewhere than in the lexicon would cause problems for
that explanation (as well as for lexicographers, I would have
thought).</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Simon</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN lang=ZH-TW
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">歡迎以中文回信</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Simon Smith,
PhD</SPAN></P>
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Professor</SPAN></P>
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Center</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">National
Chengchi University</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
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