Re: THEORY: Deriving adjectives from nouns

Charles wrote:

>
> Semantic lexemes can be distinguished from grammatical morphemes:
> http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/homepage.html#lexmorph
>
Charles Fillmore, Ronald Langacker, and George Lakoff (among many
others) would strongly disagree; their work on "construction grammar"
begins from the hypothesis that the "grammatical vs. semantic"
distinction is bogus, and that *all* constructions are symbolic --
e.g. they pair forms with meanings.  In the case of what are
traditionally called "grammatical" morphemes, these meanings tend to
be fairly abstract and sometimes complex.

Ed Heil ------ edheil@postmark.net
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