Abstract
This article attempts to explain why blackboard can
be other colors than black while black board must be
black. This difference in meaning between them is shown to
be accounted for by assuming the independently motivated
assumptions, including Heim's (1982) Tripartite
Quantificational Structure. Building on the consideration
of the two nominal expressions, blackboard and
black board, I try to shed light on the question of
what occurs at the interface where phonological, semantic,
and syntactic components meet.
