verbal adjectives

[Loren Billings]

This is in reply to Gil Rappaport's recent comments on _(dee)prichastie_,
specifically that no one uses the term _verbal adjective_.  I should point
out that Maurice LEVIN, in his book _Russian declension and conjugation:  A
structural description with exercises_ (Columbus, Ohio:  Slavica; 1978),
does consistently use the term _verbal adjective_.  I've used that book as
the textbook twice now for structure-of-Russian courses and always thought
that it was a pedagogical effort to avoid anxiety-inducing fancy words like
_participle_.  It may be that Levin uses the term for the same principled
reasons.  Just to show that this exception proves the rule, I always found
myself using the term _participle_ in class, despite Levin's use of _verbal
adjective_.

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