Re: limiting adjectives vs possessive adjectives

2015-03-17 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 2015-Mar-16 5:42 PM, Fred Ridder wrote: Yes, there are restrictive [and non-restrictive] adjectives, which is what I assume you are referring to as "limiting adjectives" (a term I failed to find in any of my handy grammar/linguistics references). But I don't think that's what we are dealing

RE: limiting adjectives vs possessive adjectives

2015-03-16 Thread Guy K. Haas
Thanks, Fred-- "[T]he second noun could be made from the first (e.g., chicken soup), intended for the first (e.g., user manual), composed of the first (e.g., butterfly migration), dependent on the first (e.g., church wedding)" At the grocery store, we see this variety all the time. Corn

RE: limiting adjectives vs possessive adjectives

2015-03-16 Thread Fred Ridder
Yes, there are restrictive [and non-restrictive] adjectives, which is what I assume you are referring to as "limiting adjectives" (a term I failed to find in any of my handy grammar/linguistics references). But I don't think that's what we are dealing with here in the non-possessive case, becau