Talk:Bracketing paradox

The bracketing examples would probably look better with underbrackets, but I don't know if this is possible with TeX. CyborgTosser (Only half the battle) 02:54, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you mean something like:
 * $$ \underbrace{ [\mbox{nuclear}]} \underbrace{ [ \mbox{physic(s)}  ] [\mbox{-ist}]}  $$
 * ?--Harris 12:35, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Anyone else by any chance have the book Understanding Morphology? I believe it has some good references regarding bracketing paradoxes that could be cited here. CyborgTosser (Only half the battle) 09:25, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

This definition seems to conflate conflate ambiguity with bracketing paradoxes. I've edited it to be more specific. Rmalouf (talk) 18:30, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Bad examples unhappier and uneasier
The examples unhappier and uneasier are not good examples, at least for this native speaker of English, because I do not accept these as proper words. For me, using standard asterisk notation:
 * Joe is more unhappy than Mary.
 * *Joe is unhappier than Mary.
 * Joe is more uneasy than Mary.
 * *Joe is uneasier than Mary.

Anomalocaris (talk) 06:31, 13 February 2009 (UTC)


 * A more standard example is ungrammaticality, which has the same property: morphologically, un- is level 2 (no stress shift, etc), but -ity is level 1 (causes stress shift, etc); semantically, -ity has to attach to 'ungrammatical' to yield the right meaning. Feel free to change the ex if you want. Mundart (talk) 13:11, 26 May 2009 (UTC)