From reid@xxxxxxxx.xxxx Sat Apr 10 17:18:23 1999 X-Digest-Num: 110 Message-ID: <44114.110.606.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 19:18:23 -0500 From: Christopher Reid Palmer > A thought. The primary constraint on gismu definitions is that they conform > > to their place structures. It is possible that if you adequately define > > the semantics of the place structures you will have defined the gismu. > > That this would be adequate has been an assumption of mine. This is, I > > think, unlike what is possible with non-predicate languages. (I hope this > > thought is not too incoherent). I am sympathetic towards this view myself. > How then would you distinguish between {blanu} and {crino}? Same > place-structure, different meanings. But the meanings of what go in the places are different. (Note that if you define meaning as 'place structure' -- which is to say, a usage pattern -- then you have to assume that any place-filler is (at least prototypically) a predicate itself.) innerfire.visi.com/pala-kalloejna/Namespaces.html -- Chris _____________________________________________________________________________ Christopher Reid Palmer : reid@pconline.com : http://innerfire.visi.com/