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Finally consider the list of elementary signatures beginning with A:
7.6.3 T
RANSPARENT AND OPAQUE RELATIONS BEGINNING WITH
A
1A
N?
2A
/
V?
3A
/
/
A?
4A
N?
5A
\
\
V
prepositional_object
\
verb (opaque)
6A
A?
7A
\
|
N dj
|
noun (transparent)
8A
|
V dj
|
verb (transparent)
9A
|
A?
10 A
−
N?
11 A
−
V?
A adj-adj coordination (transparent)
Three elementary signatures are transparent (7, 8, 12), one is opaque (5), and
the remaining eight do not appear to be used in English.
In summary, of the 36 possible intrapropositional elementary signatures, En-
glish seems to use only 11, of which seven are transparent and four are opaque:
12 A
−
7.6.4 T
RANSPARENT VS
.
OPAQUE INTRAPROPOSITIONAL RELATIONS
transparent intrapropositional relations
1.
/
/
N
V (subject
verb)
2.
N
\
V (object
\
verb)
3.
A
|
N(adj
|
noun)
4.
A
|
V(adj
|
verb)
5.
N
−
N (noun-noun)
6.
V
−
V (verb-verb)
A (add-adj)
opaque intrapropositional relations
8.
7.
A
−
V
/
V (infinitive_subject
/
verb)
\
\
9.
V
V (infinitive_object
verb)
10. V
|
N (progressive_verb
|
noun, infinitive
|
noun)
verb)
In addition, there are the extrapropositional relations (7.5.1). Of the 36 po-
tential extrapropositional relations, English uses the following five:
11. A
\
V (prepositional_object
\
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