[lojban] Re: Question to native English speakers

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

--- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/24/07, Joel Shellman <jshellman@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > After googling, I found one non-authoritive account stating that
> > adj-noun-noun combos should always be considered adj (noun noun)
> > unless there is a hyphen between the first two words.
> 
> Sounds right, at least for most cases. But "another" is a special
> adjective, as it includes a determiner, so "another-world map" won't
> really work either.
> 
> "Another World map" seems to work with the (AW)M parsing only when
> "Another World" is the name of a place, similar to "United States map".
> For example: "There was an Another World map on the wall".
> 
> >  I
> > would say that adj-noun-noun combos will be intended and interpreted
> > either way depending on the context, intonation, etc. in casual
> > conversation and writing.
> 
> For normal adjectives, yes. For "another", unless used as a name,
> what context could give the "(another noun) noun" reading?


Not context so much as intonation and juncture: longer pause before "map" than between "another"
and "world," stress and higher pitch on "another" but level to "world" and falling on "map"
(approximately, in my idiolect).

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