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Wivvy · GrandCnut Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 10928

this lil chap

bumble · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:58 pm Post subject:

awwwwwwwwwwww i just wanna squeeze it!

V · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:14 pm Post subject:

Cute Wivvy Very Happy

Thats two words I never thought I would use in the same sentance Wink

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V · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:33 pm Post subject:

Snap on day at Marky Marks work, just 'happened' to pop by at same time and came away with some new bling for the tool box.... just add it to his account Laughing

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Tango · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:03 pm Post subject:

Day out by the sea visiting my folks, and a clear run down the 272 from the start at Winchester .......... Wheelie

eat my exhaust fumes Mr Audi TT driver ....... what a w***er

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andi · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:55 pm Post subject:

Having the "suffix paradox" explained to me Laughing

Cheers Wivvy Wink

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Mannakin · Learner Joined: 27 Apr 2011 Posts: 85 Location: Hove

Waking up at 05:15 (instead of alarm at 06:45 Dreaming

) and thinking bugger it - i'm going to work now.

So 70 miles cross-country instead of 70 miles motorway.

Went 15 miles before I found anything to overtake! Wheelie

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Wivvy · GrandCnut Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 10928

biggus · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:43 am Post subject:

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Wivvy · GrandCnut Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 10928

MORPHOLOGY: a situation in which the morphological structure of a word which one would like to propose for semantic reasons does not correspond to the structure one would like to propose for phonological reasons. Hence, a situation in which morphophonological structure and semantic structure are not isomorphic. The existence of bracketing paradoxes is closely associated with level-ordering theories such as Pesetsky's (1979) and Kiparsky's (1982) theories of Lexical Morphology/Phonology. These theories propose morphological structures on the basis of level-ordering which are sometimes in conflict with the semantic structure. EXAMPLE: A well-known case of a bracketing paradox independent of level-ordering (see Level Ordering Hypothesis) involves the English comparative suffix -er and the negative prefix un-. In this case the phonological argumentation derives from a well-known restriction on the attachment of -er. This suffix is subject to the following constraint: it may attach to monosyllabic adjectives, and a small class of bisyllabic ones with a light final syllable, while it may not attach to adjectives with two or more heavy syllables. Compare (i):

(i) blacker, softer, poorer, nicer
happier, luckier, heavier
*directer, *complexer, *eloquenter, *importanter

Apparent counterexamples involve the prefix un-, since unhappier, unluckier etc. are well-formed. In level-ordering theories, the solution to this problem is almost trivial: assume that -er suffixation takes place at an earlier level than un- prefixation. In that case -er is added to, for instance, happy, and un- to happier, and the phonological condition on -er suffixation is not violated. Hence, the phonologically motivated morphological structure of unhappier is [un [happy-er]A]A. However, this structure raises a problem of interpretation. The meaning of the word unhappier can be paraphrased as 'more not happy', i.e. with more having scope over un-, and crucially not as 'not more happy' with reversed scope. Hence the semantically motivated structure is [[un happy] er].
All bracketing paradoxes take the form: [prefix [root+suffix]] <-> [[prefix+root] suffix].
Another term for bracketing paradox is 'relatedness paradox'.

apparently

Wivvy · GrandCnut Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 10928

i'm glad i cleared that up anyway.....

and you're welcome Andi 2 Thumbs up

biggus · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:01 am Post subject:

ninjabobs location rolling on the floor laughing

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andi · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:13 am Post subject:

Wivvy · GrandCnut Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 10928

andi · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:18 am Post subject:

Wivvy · GrandCnut Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 10928

there's not enough puppies on this forum