Re: Most common irregular verbs?
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 4:04 |
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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.
Paul
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