Re: THEORY: When is a verb not a verb?
| From: | Kelly Drinkwater <mizunomi@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 27, 2008, 22:35 |
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On Jan 27, 2008 3:36 PM, Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@...> wrote:
> Where the oddness comes in is with a few very short
> ones, including some that are monophonemic.
> By their size, these seem to straddle the grey area between derivational
> operations and incorporating verbs.
It's perfectly acceptable to say just that -- these are grey-area
entities, and who knows, diachronically they might change in either
direction, or they might not. Doesn't this same sort of grey area
happen everywhere in synthetic langs?