[Lexicog] Defining verbs, etc.

[Mike Maxwell]

rtroike at email.arizona.edu wrote:
> ...(Is
> anyone old enough to remember the "God's Truth or Hocus-Pocus"
> controversy? There can be no doubt that Chomsky's work is in the
> hocus-pocus category, given the frequent radical changes in the
> model.) For one thing, those interested in lexical decomposition
> recognize that many (perhaps most) verbs consist of a covert
> light verb component and a nominal component...

I'm old enough, but deriving mono-morphemic verbs from covert components 
is not hocus pocus :-?  I thought that sort of thing went out with 
Generative Semantics...
-- 
	Mike Maxwell
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


 
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