Wednesday 27 March 2024

David Rose Applying Subjacency Duplexes To An English Sovereign


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[1] In the first example, Rose's subjacency duplex analysis conflates group rank with word rank. To be clear, the nominal group the King of England serves the same function as George in George's hat, where George and 's are two morphemes that constitute the word George's. That is, the nominal group the King of England is shifted to morpheme rank, as a constituent of the King of England's. 

[2] In the second example, Rose's analysis assumes that king's is a type of hat. The words that realise the Deictic and Classifier are then interpreted as subjacency duplexes instead of the Head and Modifier morphemes of a noun. Assuming, more reasonably, that the hat belongs to the king of England, the analysis is: