On 11/14/2001 09:13:41 AM John Cowan wrote:

>> I need a definition before I can answer that.
>
>See http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2362r.pdf

No, I need to know what definition of "featural" was meant when the
question was asked.

>> The idea of
>> the prototype definition is that the set of object to which that term
>> applies does not have sharp boundaries.
>
>Actually, this no longer represents Lakoff's view, as he makes clear
>in WF&DT...

Thanks, John, for the clarification. I was recalling that from memory; I
last read it in 1994 while I was in the hospital in Chiang Mai trying to
recover from pneumonia. Obviously, I need to read it again.


- Peter


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