In today’s Dilbert, Catbert persecutes Dilbert (as Alice looks on): (#1) N + N compounds are notorious for the wide range of interpretations available for them: what’s the semantic relationship between head N2 and modifier N1? As above, where the choice is between ‘ref(N2) relieves, reduces ref(N1)’ (the reading for a conventionalized compound stress ball … Continue reading Balls on the N + N compound watch