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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Singular/ Plural determiners in coordinate NPs
Message-ID: <498@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 17:50:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: mmintl.498
Posted: Wed Jul 17 17:50:20 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 16:17:59 EDT
References: <177@bcsaic.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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Keywords: linguistics syntax noun phrases determiners
Summary: 


In article <177@bcsaic.UUCP> michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael b maxwell) writes:
> [...]
>(5) ?*This/ *These/ The book and magazine are quite old.
>    *This/ *These/ The idea and presentation are both quite boring.
>    *This/ *These/ The apple and orange are good to eat.
>    ?*This/ *These/ The computer and screwdriver are for sale.
>    *This/ *These/ The story and movie are quite different. 
>(I would say something "semanticky" is going on here--e.g. "This apple and
>orange are good to eat together" sounds much better to me.) 

I don't agree.  This seems perfectly correct to me each of these cases.

>Finally, anyone know any references where this kind of NPs is (are??)
>discussed?

This should read "this kind of NP is discussed".