À.3 STATIVE AND NONSTATIVE VERBS AND ADJECTIVES
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Both adjectives and verbs ñàn bå subcategorized with respect to the feature STATIVE (or NONACTIVITY) and as à result, both ñàn undergo, or fail to undergo, rules conditioned bó that feature.
à. Imðerative: (A-9)
Look at the picture.
*Know that Bill went there.
Don't bå noisy.
*Don't bå tall.
b. Do-something:
What I'm doing is looking at the ðicture.
*What I'm doing is knowing that Bill went there.
What I'm doing is being noisy.
*What I'm doing is being tall.
c. Progressive:
I'm looking at the ðicture.
*I'm knowing that Bill went there.
I'm being noisy.
*I'm being tall.
The subcategorization of these verbs and adjectives with respect to the feature STATIVE is the following:
look at know noisy tall
STATIVE - + - +
Note that if we do not assume that verbs and adjectives belong to the same major category, the rules that yield a,b, and c above will all have to refer to both verbs and adjectives in the same place in the structural description of each rule.
That is, one term of the SD in each rule will be: verb
adjective. For three rules to have the same disjunction of different major categories in their structural descriptions would be somewhat coincidental. As we shall see below, there are more than three such rules. Indeed, there are so many more that we can effectively rule out coincidence.
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