Novel Nominals in Child English

[Sue Powers]

William,

Thanks for your message. I have a correction too. Not sure the
original examples are Gruber's as I believe the reduced relative
analysis
was first proposed by Henry Hamburger (as well Hamburger and Crain?).

I think all of them are some sort of relative structure

food house 	=	restaurant    	a house that has food
witch's ride 	=   	broom          	a thing that witches ride
Paris building	=  	Eiffel Tower  	a building that is in Paris
cooking glove            = 	oven mitt      	a glove that is used for
cooking
baby napkin 	= 	bib               	a napkin that is used by/for babies

Best,
Susan

On Sep 4, 11:50 am, William Snyder <william.sny... at uconn.edu> wrote:
> One correction to my last message:
>
> William Snyder wrote:
> > Now, the other three examples you mentioned are different:
>
> > "wash hands" = sink
> > "daddy's read" = newspaper
> > "witch's ride"= broom
>
> > These could conceivably be attempts at an adult-English reduced
> > relative ("where you wash your hands", "what daddies (?) read", "what
> > witches ride").
>
> That should have been 'free relative', not 'reduced relative'.
>
> - William
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