[Lexicog] Fwd: definitions

[John Roberts]

Dear Karolina,

Mark Baker in Baker (2003) Lexical Categories. Verbs, Nouns and 
Adjectives, proposes a syntactic definition for these categories.

For verb:
X is a verb iff X is a lexical category and X has a specifier

For noun:
a) Semantic version: nouns and only nouns have criteria of identity, 
whereby they can serve as standards of sameness.
b) Syntactic version: X is a noun iff X is a lexical category and X 
bears a referential index, expressed as an ordered pair of integers.

For adjective:
Adjectives have neither the properties of verbs or nouns.


John Roberts

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John R Roberts
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Wayne Leman wrote:
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> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 2:14 AM
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> Dear all,
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> I am looking for any information concerning any
> studies or resources about what is the natural way of
> defining nouns, verbs and adjectives. 
>
> Together with my friend, we are going to write our MA
> thesis about Poles' natural ways of defining those
> grammatical categories. We then want to check whether
> definitions used in monolingual EFL dictionaries may
> be really helpful and user-friendly for Poles.
>
> I would be very grateful for your help.
>
> Karolina Kryspowicka
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