[Lexicog] unlex-entries

[Mike Maxwell]

Susan Gehr wrote:
> On 5/18/05 5:17 AM, "Mike Maxwell" <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>At issue is sentences like
>> They had only just moved in; their boxes lay on the
>> kitchen floor, still unpacked.
>>where 'unpacked' is apparently used to mean 'packed'.  The question is
>>whether this is a mistake, or a legitimate (whatever that means) usage.
>>To put it in terms more relevant to this list, would you put this
>>sense in your dictionary?  Or is it ungood?
>
> First impression: It's a legitimate usage. I would say 'still unpacked'
> rather than 'still packed' because the boxes were packed in the old house,
> but what I need to do with the boxes in the new house is unpack them.

I suspect this is most people's initial reaction.  But why wouldn't you
say "still not unpacked"?
--
	Mike Maxwell
	Linguistic Data Consortium
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


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