7.1827, Disc: Verb Classes

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-1827. Wed Dec 25 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875.
 
Subject: 7.1827, Disc: Verb Classes
 
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Date:  Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:30:09 -0500
From:  Jules Levin <jflevin at ucrac1.ucr.edu>
Subject:  Re: 7.1780, Sum: Verb Classes
 
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Date:  Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:30:09 -0500
From:  Jules Levin <jflevin at ucrac1.ucr.edu>
Subject:  Re: 7.1780, Sum: Verb Classes
 
I seem to be getting Linguist only irregularly, and just discovered this
discussion in the Sum. re VErb Classes.  Unless I missed something, the
conclusions seem to reflect the view of Mel'chuk about the primacy of
Lexicon (with valences for verbs) over formal classes in a formal
grammatical structure.  The discoveries (??!!!) for French and English,
certainly also true for Russian, is that the deeper we get into *meaning*,
the more it is clear that each verb has its own "grammar".
A cognitive semantic interpretative approach to the verb system will
ultimately be both more insightful and closer to language as she is...
Jules Levin
 
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