Delexical

[Grogie]

I know this is another arcane word but it,s quite interesting. It describes a verb in a sentence that has little meaning in its own right but is essential to the sentence. An example is ''take'' in ''take a photograph'' or ''have'' in ''have a good time''. A delexical verb is also known as a ''light verb''.

[skinem]

Another fine word, Grogie! You have helped my vocabulary immensely.

But, I'm starting to picture someone hunched over old, obscure, out of print textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedias, with glasses perched on the end of their nose in a dark room save for a single accountant's lamp late at night searching for wonderfully useful words.

However it's happening, keep 'em coming! Delexical is delectable! Delexical sounds like a ex-word to me...

(Of course, here in the south, it's "make" a picture...)

[Grogie]

Thanks Skinem. I do look at old dictionaries occasionally but mostly I come across the words in my travels across the Internet.

[Perry]

The term light verb makes me wonder if heavy verbsare radioactive.

[gailr]

Four out of five educators agree that "unlight" verbs have 1/3 the verbage of "light" verbs.

Interesting word, grogie. I don't remember hearing about this back in Sentence Parsing Class, but I found this.

[Perry]

Can I declare myself the Head Noun, or do I need to be nominated?

[Bailey]

But Perry you are nominated, elected and in office.

mark Perry-fan Bailey

[Bailey]

InterestingLink, Gailr, I tried a sentance at the bottom, I got this:

my suggestion
Due to the great demand on the products the ones we gave away were greatly valued.

Recommended suggestion(s) ...
Due to the great we gave away demand on the products, the ones were greatly valued.

mark don't-ya-just-love-computer-generated-responses? Bailey

[Stargzer]

... A delexical verb is also known as a ''light verb''.

I'll drink to light verbs, but not with most lite beers! BLECH! PTOOIE! YUCK!

[Stargzer]

Can I declare myself the Head Noun, or do I need to be nominated?

No, but you can be Nominative if you are not Aversive, Causal, Direct, Excessive, Final, Formal, Objective, Possessive, Prosecutive, ....

[Perry]

I always knew that you couldn't be a lager lad!

Lager and bitter drinkers the same personality? Come on, they're like chalk and cheese - visit any Lager Lad pub and then try a CAMRA real ale haunt. No comparison!
Rob, London UK

[Stargzer]

I always knew that you couldn't be a lager lad!

Lager and bitter drinkers the same personality? Come on, they're like chalk and cheese - visit any Lager Lad pub and then try a CAMRA real ale haunt. No comparison!
Rob, London UK

What if you don't drink? No personality I guess.
Tannice Pendegrass, Cambridge, UK

Cider drinkers were presumably unable to read the cards
J Martyn, Northampton

Where's the "all of the above" option?
Tom Finnie, London

What were the researchers drinking in the course of this 'experiment'?
Andrew, Malvern UK

[Palewriter]

How remarkably worked up some people seem to get about beer. Apparently it's not enough to enjoy a GOOD beer (regardless of brewing method). One has to belong to some side or other, like Catholic or Protestant, Shi'a or Sunni, dry ribs or wet, regular or decaf.

Personally, I'm fond of TASTY. I've had real English pints of bitter that tasted like they were brewed in a gorilla's armpit. I've also had lagers that could've been produced by a diabetic horse. On the other hand, I've tasted porters, stouts, bitters, pale ales, lagers and weissbiers that made me smile.

So why must everything be so damned categorical?


-- PW (who just enjoyed a nice Pernod and water)

[skinem]

I'm with you PW. I've had some beer that I was "supposed" to like and I thought it tasted like it'd been filtered through Uncle Wayne's undershirt. Others I'd liked.
I like some of all of 'em; I also dislike some of all of 'em.

Skinem--who just enjoyed a nice "Bubba's Cola" on the rocks. Really.