[lbo-talk] Linguistics query

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Nov 6 06:30:38 PST 2013


In a Walter Moseley book, the sentence "he shot himself in the head in the head" occurs. Now it's obvious which head is architectural, which anatomic (one would not say "he shot himself in the wheat field in the head"), but what is the rule governing that?

Carrol



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list