ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a large number of ungrammatical article + modifier sequences in which article and modifier are semantically opposed in one of the ways. It argues that the explanation for the ungrammaticalities can be traceable only to a semantic, and not to an underlying syntactic, opposition between the rules inserting and positioning article and modifier. The grammaticality argument makes crucial use of the pragmatic aspects of the semantic contrast between definiteness and indefiniteness. There are many more ungrammaticalities involving definite and indefinite articles, in addition to those considered, which can be explained in terms of the semantic contrast between inclusiveness versus exclusiveness. In other words, attempts to formalise article + modifier co-occurrence restrictions within the syntactic component of a Transformational Grammar have been premature for the kinds of data discussed. The sequences of article + modifier which is considered involves a very strong form of ungrammaticality. The sequences which are starred would never occur in Yotsukura's corpus.
