[Lexicog] Nouns

[billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU]

Actually, Chomsky and I believe pretty much all generative grammarians
as well as many non-generative syntacticians would call "grits"
BOTH a noun AND an NP. As a word, its a noun, but when it appears in
a sentence it may be an NP by itself. Frankly, I don't see how one
could do otherwise. If you deny that "grits" in a sentence
such as "Mike ate grits for breakfast" is an NP, you miss the fact
that its syntactic behaviour is exactly parallel to what presumably
everyone will concede are NPs such as:

	"cold, left-over grits"
	"my grits"
	"the grits that he bought in Georgia last week"

Chomsky and his followers may have some odd theory-peculiar notions,
but I don't think that this is one of them.

Bill



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