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THEORY: Re : THEORY: Deriving adjectives from nouns

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Date:Monday, June 7, 1999, 20:54
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