LL-L "Grammar" 2005.12.10 (09) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 10 December 2005 * Volume 09
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From: Ben J. Bloomgren <Ben.Bloomgren at asu.edu>
Subject: RE: LL-L "Grammar" 2005.12.10 (06) [E]

> I wonder whether our brains 'understand'  "the king" as "theking" and
> so know not to insert anything inbetween.
>
Eh? "The fat king"? "The Lion King"? "The elf king"? "The grammar king"?

What am I missing? You grammarians are all mad!

Sandy and all, at least according to my basic knowledge of linguistics, 
adjectives are modifiers, not complements. Possible she's referring to the 
fact that the brain knows what is a complement and what is a modifier, and 
hence can avoid confusion between the two camps. That way, the fat, blind, 
pensive elf king can still exist, with the brain realizing that all those 
things that go between the determiner "the" and the NP king are just 
modifiers that can be removed to form a properly formed phrase - the king. 

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