piebaldadjective

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Descriptions of animal (non-human) markings
bay
blaze
calico
camouflage
camouflaged
chestnut
colouration
marmalade cat
non-mimetic
palomino
piebald
pinto
roan
skewbald
spotted
tabby

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Monochrome & multi-coloured

Examples of pied

pied
As the second of these examples shows, the negative element cannot be pied-piped to the front of the sentence along with the auxiliary verb.
However, a careful study of parasitic gaps in the clausal pied-piping constructions reveals that the gaps can only be licensed inside the infinitival clause.
The displacement of phrasal categories is carried out by some sort of general pied-piping operation.
It is clear that the 'stranding' option, since it involves moving, and thus copying, less material than the pied-piping option, creates less structural complexity.
Nor can the special status of (28b) be attributable to pied-piping since no piedpiping is at all involved in it.
If this presents a problem, the solution cannot lie in abandoning those natural constraints on pied-piping.
The basic treatment of pied piping is very simple.
Second, the reanalysis of stacked relatives via extraposition appears to interact incorrectly with pied piping.
We tentatively propose that the reanalysis was caused by a decrease in unambiguous evidence for pied piping.
But the loss of pied piping on its own is not enough to guarantee the development of expletives.
This development cannot be causally related to the pied piping parameter, as one reviewer points out to me.
Jingoism is condemned in the song of a new pied piper.
This would create pressure in favour of the stranding option unless the pied-piping option is robustly triggered.
In relative terms, this yields an incidence of 14 per cent for stranding and 86 per cent for pied piping.
To start with the second of these questions, recall that there are factors which limit the usual choice between pied piping and stranding.
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