> Garrett wrote:
> > verbs can be made pretty close to logical; nouns can't. The nouns that
> > I've been deriving are ones based on verbal concepts; I haven't touched
> > the purely noun concepts (such as dog, house, street, etc).
>
> Have you ever read _Words in Context_ (also published, sans a chapter,
> as _Japanese and the Japanese_)? The author makes a similar argument -
> he argues, quite persuasively, that most verbs can be defined exactly,
> while non-derived nouns cannot.
>
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