Timeline for Heuristic whether a verb which could be either separable or unseparable is separable or unseparable
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| Feb 24, 2021 at 9:21 | comment | added | Jonathan Herrera♦ | Yes, you are right. Maybe I am asking to prove a negative. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 8:58 | comment | added | user47844 | @jonathan.scholbach People like to find a semantic explanation for grammatical phenomena. But often the evolution of grammatical stuctures was guided by grammatical or phonetic principles and not to express a difference in meaning. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 8:51 | comment | added | user47844 | @jonathan.scholbach My first sentence says that "I don't think it has anything to do with the meaning of the verb". That is a direct answer to the question. What else do you expect me to say if there probably is no semantic criterion? It is always difficult to prove a negative. I would have to list all sources that don't mention a semantic criterion, and that still wouldn't prove that there is no semantic criterion only that it hasn't yet been found (or mentioned). I also give an additional, etymological criterion. So I am certainly adding information. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 8:42 | comment | added | Jonathan Herrera♦ | I don't think, this is an answer to the question. The question already mentions that stress is a criterion to differentiate the two casses. However, it asks explicitely for semantically based criteria. The fact that stress is a criterion, is not an argument against the existence of semantical criteria, is it? | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 17:34 | history | edited | user47844 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2021 at 17:27 | history | answered | user47844 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |