Grundbedeutung?

[Peter Hook]

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Hello, John

        For the notion of "radial category", which undermines the
plausibility of Grundbedeutung, you might want to look at the discussion
of the Japanese classifier "hon" in Lakoff's 'Women, Fire and Dangerous
Things'.  Brugman's work on "over", to my mind, also casts doubt on the
necessity of a single Grundbedeutung tying together all instances of a
morphological or lexical form.

        All the best,

                Peter

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, John Peterson wrote:

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> Hi!
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> Could anyone recommend a good, DETAILED discussion of (active and) middle
> voice in Classical Sanskrit or Vedic? I'm especially interested in finding a
> "Grundbedeutung" for the middle voice.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> John
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