On 08/20/2002 08:32:53 PM "John D. Burger" wrote:
>Thus, I would have an issue
>with the argument that the apostrophe is merely part of the spelling of
>the word "hill's". There is no such word.
There certainly is such a wordform; you have used it in your illustrative
sentence. It is a phonological word, but not a morphological word, which
is the point of your illustration.
>Zwicky, Arnold M., & Geoffrey K. Pullum, 1983.
That article is a good example of careful analysis. I recall reading
another by them on a similar topic that also impressed me.
- Peter
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