Timeline for Greatest extent possible vs Greatest possible extent [adjective position]
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| May 24 at 16:52 | vote | accept | mateleco | ||
| May 24 at 16:34 | answer | added | Barmar | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 24 at 0:33 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Is there any particular reason you favor seeing possible as a complement of the noun phrase greatest extent rather than a postpositioned attributive modifier to the head-noun? Is it because without involving greatest the word possible would make no sense? I ask because I’m in general wary of analyses that reach too automatically towards whiz-deletion to explain away all possible right-branching NP elements. | |
| May 24 at 0:23 | comment | added | IconDaemon | Both of these forms say essentially the same thing. I favor the first, though, but that's just me. | |
| May 24 at 0:09 | history | asked | mateleco | CC BY-SA 4.0 |