Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1+some 2/3/84; site dual.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!cbosgd!ihnp4!dual!hav From: hav@dual.UUCP (Helen Anne Vigneau) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: "Our Concern is Growing": Ortho's Triple Ambiguity (+ challenge) Message-ID: <811@dual.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 19:53:25 EDT Article-I.D.: dual.811 Posted: Thu Sep 20 19:53:25 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 20:43:42 EDT References: <517@ames.UUCP> <156@dcdwest.UUCP> Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA Lines: 32 <*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. => =>-- => _ =>Peter Benson | ITT Defense Communications Division =>(619)578-3080 | 10060 Carroll Canyon Road =>decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!benson | San Diego, CA 92131 =>ucbvax!sdcsvax!dcdwest!benson | => How about: 4) I possessed a book, and *Stolen* was its name. 5) ????? Helen Anne Vigneau Dual Systems Corporation