Re: THEORY: What, Besides Verbs, Can Take Two Or More Arguments?
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 3, 2005, 22:24 |
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In a message dated 8/2/2005 2:44:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tomhchappell@YAHOO.COM writes:
>What about English words like "than" and "as"? What lexical category do
they belong to?
They are traditionally considered conjunctions. (Now some real linguist will
come along and tell me that tradition is wrong.) "Than" is traditionally
considered to take a clause as its argument. "New york is bigger than Boston" is
said to be reduced from "New York is bigger than Boston is big."
Doug
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