Blackboard and Black Board—Accentuation and Deaccentuation and Their Influences on Meanings of Words —

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.