Linguistics

2 posts tagged with “Linguistics

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Case Grammar and Service Semantics: Toward a Richer Vocabulary for Action

In the previous post, I argued that the "good services are verbs" heuristic, while valuable, is incomplete. Verbs alone cannot capture the material infrastructure, institutional rules, practice...

When Nouns Surface as Verbs: Denominal Conversion and Service Naming

The previous post argued that the "good services are verbs" heuristic, while valuable as a corrective to bureaucratic naming, obscures as much as it reveals. The noun/verb distinction in service...