THEORY: Re : THEORY: Deriving adjectives from nouns

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 07/06/99 21:38:59  , Ed a =E9crit :

> > Semantic lexemes can be distinguished from grammatical morphemes:
>  > http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/homepage.html#lexmorph
>  >
> =20
>  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.
grammemes are another category of deictic referring to utterance itself. in=20
other words they are semes specialising in utterance. so i think both charle=
s=20
and you are right (or wrong) ;-)

mathias