In a message dated 12/24/2001 6:54:57 PM Central Standard Time, thinkit8@lycos.com writes:As I said, "between" would be a one argument verb. Try A between Well, I don't see in what sense a one-place predicate can mean "between" Since the sentence will only be true -- even meaningfull -- if it has the two "tags," this seems to be merely a remarkably inefficient way to show a three-place predicate. I could, using this logic, make all predicates one-place by divvying up bits of the meaning in pieces and then requiring that all the "tags" be there with the "basic meaning" part. I don't see that as in any way informative, merely arbitrarily procrustean. The limit to two-place is in princple the same. More coherent would be just areas and and (one-place) tags: entitlement donor recipient patient, for "give" say. st least each piece really means something that way (the one-place "between" doe not have any meaning without the tags). |