On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jim Henry wrote:
>
> On 10/11/05, Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:
>
> > From reading the (latest) Konya description, I expected
> > it to have exactly four semantic categories with
> > corresponding lexical classes. Jim's message suggests
> > that Konya now has only three. Could it be that we will
> > discover a need to make the number five, say, or seven?
>
> I was misremembering based on some of Larry's
> last messages in that earlier thread, not having
> had time recently to read the entire revised
> Konya 037 document. So there are four categories
> after all. If you think there might should be five
> or more, what are the additional ones you would
> add? (At one point I might have suggested
> five categories, dividing processes and verbs
> into transitive and intransitive.)
>
> I will try to find time soon to read the entire
> Konya document again, and see what all
> has changed since I last read it in its entirety.
> But I have some urgent stuff to do in the
> next few days so it may not be _very_ soon.
>
> Jim Henry

That's cool, Jim; I know the feeling! :-) And
I'm taking my time with Konya at the moment,
to let it all seep in a bit more.

Offhand, I can't see any need for more categories.
I think the primary category was probably "verb",
and that others sort of crystallised out of the
continued use of the first (verb) words ... So a
scheme that allows for anything more than "verb"
and "noun" already seems quite ... lush! to me.

Regards,
Yahya

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