Ergative Absolutive on Nostr: It's only just occurred to me *decades* late that the joke of 'The Addams Family ...
It's only just occurred to me *decades* late that the joke of 'The Addams Family Values' is based on ambiguous phrase structure. We could have [Addams Family] modifying 'values', as in Fig 1 -- the intended interpretation, but there's also the alternative bracketing which is automatically invoked by the highly frequent collocation 'family values'.
It's rather a brilliant film title!
(don't come at me for using X' schemas. I like 'em, they serve my non-syntactician needs)
#linguistics
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