At 08:16 10/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>> Everything's disputed in linguistics (not only in linguistics,
the number
>> of scientists that don't agree with the "canon" is impressive). But what=
do
>> you call "noun-like" and "verb-like" class? Is this a semantic=
distinction,
>> a distinction of everyday use or something else? I'd like to know more
>> about it.
>
>I suspect that at least some of this debate boils down to how you define
>the terms "verb", "noun", and "adjective", I think that there are quite
>a few debates in linguistics (and other fields) that are similar.
>
That's at the same time the richness and the unhappiness of linguistics:
there's many things to discover, many things to debate, this is one of the
richest fields of research I know, but nearly everybody have their own
definition of the words they use, and often those definitions don't
overlap. It's at the same time frustrating and exciting. What do you think
of this?
Christophe Grandsire
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