Delexical
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Delexical
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''.
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...)
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...)
The term light verb makes me wonder if heavy verbsare radioactive.
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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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.
Interesting word, grogie. I don't remember hearing about this back in Sentence Parsing Class, but I found this.
InterestingLink, Gailr, I tried a sentance at the bottom, I got this:
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Due to the great demand on the products the ones we gave away were greatly valued.
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Due to the great we gave away demand on the products, the ones were greatly valued.
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Re: Delexical
I'll drink to light verbs, but not with most lite beers! BLECH! PTOOIE! YUCK!... A delexical verb is also known as a ''light verb''.
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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No, but you can be Nominative if you are not Aversive, Causal, Direct, Excessive, Final, Formal, Objective, Possessive, Prosecutive, ....Can I declare myself the Head Noun, or do I need to be nominated?
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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
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
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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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
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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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)
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)
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"
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