APPLIED LINGUISTICS: A lexical denouement 

		I.

Looking at her NP traces
and pronominals of intimacy
I noticed unfamiliar word clauses
governing my heart’s grammar, but resisted -
ah, the agony of theories!

II.

Even though her applications were restricted
and the generative possibilities seemed finite
soon we began of series of transformations
in which my NP clause was inserted
into a postnomial antecedent:
to my surprise, the result felt lexically right!

III.

She was positively polyphonical!
Still, this was no concern:
the English language has been twisted so much
that lexical butchery is no longer spurned.

Remembering
her deep structures
were unexposed
and that syntactic climax was a possibility
I mounted her primary clause through a semantic split.
Ah - the joys of proverbial fronting!


Melissa:   Hmm.  We need to accept the fact that language is never quite perfect –
                   only silence is complete


Tim:	     What sort of gibberish are you muttering?

Melissa:     (raising her eyebrows) Absolutely nothing!

Liao:	    In this era there are no secrets – simply government directives that haven’t  yet leaked

Tim:         Phhh! Gim'me a break!


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from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Some absurdist nonsense about lexical transformations
KEYWORDS:  lexical transformations, semantic seductions, ribald rhetoric, innuendoed text

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1999 in Taipei, Taiwan  / Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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