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From: hav@dual.UUCP (Helen Anne Vigneau)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: "Our Concern is Growing":  Ortho's Triple Ambiguity (+ challenge)
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Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 19:53:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 20 19:53:25 1984
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<*munch*>

=>My syntax professor, Ronald Langacker, maintained that 
=>
=>	"I had a book stolen"
=>
=>was FIVE ways ambiguous.  I can get three readings easily.
=>
=>	1) I caused it to happen that a book was stolen.
=>	2) I was robbed of a book.
=>	3) I possessed a book which was stolen.
=>
=>If others can produce the fourth and fifth readings, I would
=>be interested.
=>
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=>Peter Benson			| ITT Defense Communications Division
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How about:

     4) I possessed a book, and *Stolen* was its name.
     5) ?????


Helen Anne Vigneau
Dual Systems Corporation