Talk:Head (linguistics)

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Colorless green ideas is actually ungrammatical: English NPs have only one "slot" for color adjectives. Compare red blue tulips. Surely we can find a better example and not perpetuate an example (analysis) that was flawed from the beginning. --RJCraig 18:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

"Colorless green ideas" is a grammatical noun phrase. Reference: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. 139.62.223.13 17:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)