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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Universal Adjective
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In article <3iinf1$4v8@sanson.dit.upm.es>
           jmlm@bosco "Joaquin Maria Lopez Munoz" writes:
>         By Universal Adjective (UA) I mean an adjective, say a, such
>         that, given any noun n, these two phrases make sense:
> 
>                 the n is a
>                 the n is not a
> 
>         even though, of course, only one of them will be true for each
>         instance of n.
>         E.g., "red" is not a UA, because it suits for nouns such
>         as "rock", "table" and the like but not for abstract nouns as
>         "freedom" or "maths".

nice

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