[Jprogramming] Parsing trains

[Raul Miller]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Sherlock, Ric
<R.G.Sherlock at massey.ac.nz> wrote:
> I think these are all examples of an adverb acting on a noun to its left to form a new verb?

No.

These are all examples of an adverb acting on a noun to its left.  But the first
example forms a noun.  And other examples form an adverb or a conjunction.
Some other examples illustrate the use of the derived adverb or
derived conjunction.

> For an explicit statement that says that when an adverb applies to a noun on its
> left it forms a new verb.

Since an adverb plus a noun can form a new noun, or a new adverb, or a new
conjunction, you will not find such a statement in the dictionary.

   a=: 1 :'5+#m'
   'b' a
6

Here, a is an adverb, and 'b' is a noun.  The adverb plus the noun forms a new
noun (6).  Since a noun is not a verb, this illustrates that an adverb
plus a noun
need not form a new verb.

-- 
Raul