<div dir="ltr">Thank you for this follow up, Ann. I think I understand your view of things. Just one piece<div>I wanted to follow up on this evening:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On the other hand, as you said, there are other processes where the pattern is regular but with some exceptions, and where the precise semantic effect is difficult to pin down. Much of English derivational morphology falls into this class - it is useful to represent the relationship with the stem somehow, without claiming that we're capturing everything there is to say. e.g., "unkind" definitely has some relationship with (a sense of) "kind", and it's useful to know about that, but there are some idiosyncratic aspects of its meaning. Similarly, I'd say it's useful to represent the relationship between nouns denoting dances and the corresponding verbs (tango etc), which is productive, but I'm quite content to do that via a predicate changing operation.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As I currently understand things, the change in the predicate symbol from _tango_n_1</div><div>to _tango_v_1 would correlate with:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) Change of type of ARG0 from x to e</div><div>(2) Addition of ARG1 (of type x)</div><div><br></div><div>... or in the other direction:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) Change of type of ARG0 from e to x</div><div>(2) Removal of ARG1</div><div><br></div><div>In other words, I think the predicate changing operation would also have concomittant</div><div>changes elsewhere in the EP. Also okay? (This has implications, btw, for the analysis</div><div>of Lushootseed that Joshua is working on, where there are lots of stems that seem to</div><div>be happy to serve as either nouns or verbs.)</div><div><br></div><div>Emily</div></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Emily M. Bender<br>Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>Check out CLMS on facebook! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uwclma" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/uwclma</a><br></div></div>
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