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Conlangery #49: The Noun Phrase

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Noun Phrases - Definiteness Marking

Definiteness is a whole other subject. The only place that really, the tie I saw in for the noun phrases, you know, in the mechanics of figuring out the skeletal structure of your noun phrase,. Your determiner will probably have a place in there. William: Don't get caught up in purely reductive compositional semantics. In our normal standard sort of linguistics and syntax were told to take a noun and then the adjective somehow describes the noun. Right? Except if in English, if I say something like, where's my damn book? Hmm. The word damn is not doing a normal adjective thing. No, I've heard it said that in this use, it has

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