In chapter 2 , we said that speakers typically modify a compound as a whole with adjectives rather than one member of a compound. A brown deer tick is a brown tick, not a tick that lives on brown deer. However, morphological generalizations are often not absolute, and in chapter 2, exercise 1, we presented the following two compounds that we have come across in the media:
a. German car dealership
b. rich country club
In isolation, both of these are ambiguous between a compound reading and a phrasal meaning. First, write out the two possible interpretations of each. Then draw tree diagrams or bracketing structures that clearly differentiate each interpretation.