Re: Most common irregular verbs?

Hi!

Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> writes:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:45:08 -0500, Henrik Theiling
> <theiling@...>  wrote:
>
> > The dictionary entries cited above quite obviously use quite a
> > different view on adjectives as I do here.  I'd like to know what the
> > system is behind their classification.  Do they define the terms?  Can
> > anyone help?  Is the above common-sense or English intuition?  Why?
>
> The pan-linguistic definition of an adjective pretty much seems to be
> "anything that is not clearly any other part of speech". I think I
> recall  Comrie giving that definition in _Language Universals and
> Linguistic  Typology_, but I may be wrong.
Aha, so quite plainly matching the Lat. translation of 'adjicere':
'ad' + 'jacere'?  'to throw at'? :-)  To throw the word in question at
just about anything?

Unsatisfied, I understand. :-)

**Henrik

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