Re: implicational and factive verbs

Dan Sulani wrote:
->"Nim eat the banana" either is or is not a grammatical sentence.
>If it is, (which of course it isn't), why mark it with an initial star?
>If the initial star signifies that it's ungrammatical, the sentence
>doesn't imply _anything_ because it's not likely to be used
>by a competent English speaker!>
Yes, that too.  I wonder if "implicational verbs" might be those which
_imply_ their own object (and in English et al. , can be either transitive
or intrans.).  So, eat > (something edible); sing > (something singable);
run (the physical act) > (something runnable?).  Just speculating.

>    BTW, anyone ever heard of (or _remember_ ;-)  ) the original
>"Nim"?  A chimpanzee called "Nim Chimpsky" who was one of
>the original volunteers (er, I mean "subjects"  ;-)  ) in the research on
>teaching apes to use (human) language. I don't  know whether
>the researcher who gave the chimp the name was pro-generative
>grammar with a sense of humor or anti-generative grammar with
>a grudge. (I seem to recall, though, that it was the former.)>
I think so too.  Weren't they trying to prove the existence of Chomsky's LAD
(Language Acquisition Device) or somesuch?

And a hearty "welcome back" to czHANg.