[1] The trident (N V V) is a valid entity on its own. The noun is not
converted to a verb.
Also, FYI, the AR is *not* the internal representation of an entity. It
is a portable representation that has to be converted to the internal
representation whenever the entity represented by the AR must be executed.
[2] My guess is that Ken imagined at first that gerunds were always
verbs, and then later certain cases were generalized to allow other
types, and the Dictionary didn't change to match the implementation. My
proposed changes (with your emendations) address this.
Henry Rich
On 9/6/2018 12:42 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
Ok...
If I adopt this perspective - that a gerund is a list ARs of verbs and
only verbs - I run into some ... ambiguities ... that might be worth
some thought:
[1] In the left tine of a fork, a noun AR is treated as a verb AR
(derived with "_).
[2] When I look at the dictionary page for agenda, it does *not* state
that m must be a gerund for the [email protected] case -- it only states that
requirement on the [email protected] case (where it's trivial to know the result at
parse time).
Anyways ... maybe I need to sleep on this, because I'm still not sure
what I am overlooking.
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