dropping -ed in adjectives

[Amy West]

On 5/17/12 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Wed, 16 May 2012 13:06:03 -0700
> From:    Lisa Galvin<lisagal23 at HOTMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: dropping -ed in adjectives
>
> It's not just [st] clusters though. I have noticed it in Hawaii all over th=
> e place=2C in writing=2C and always with -ed adjectives=3B e.g. "shave ice"=
> .
>                                                     Lisa GalvinSeattle USA
Interesting!

Your example, like the ice coffee/tea that Larry Horn brought up, has
the adjective in a modifier/attributive position, and I wonder if it's
being influenced by "ice cream". I'm seeing it when the adjective is a
complement. (I hope I'm getting those terms right.)

---Amy West

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