Re: Re : Malat
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 9, 1998, 3:29 |
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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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