Re: Semantic lexicon, qualia and Pustejovsky
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 30, 2004, 9:38 |
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On Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 05:55 AM, Herman Miller wrote:
> Chris Palmer wrote:
>> Philippe Caquant writes:
>>> brought back a wide question to my mind: what is definition ?
>>
>> Maybe the definition of a word is all the contexts it can be used in.
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> That's a good idea; it helps to distinguish words that otherwise have
> identical meanings, like "woodchuck" and "groundhog".
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> How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
> *How much wood would a groundhog chuck, if a groundhog could chuck
> wood?
Shouldn't that be:
"How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog
ground?"
;-)
-Stephen (Steg)
"Let them come.
There is one dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath."
~ gimli son of gloin, LotR:FotR (movie version, at least)
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