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[FONT=Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, century gothic, verdana, sans-serif]I really appreciate the comment about the usefulness of reflecting on the concept of "living dead men," motivated I imagine by a consideration of Derrida: "Zombies are cinematic inscriptions of the failure of the life/death opposition. They show where classificatory order breaks down: they mark the limits of order. Like all undecidables, zombies infect the oppositions grouped around them."[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, century gothic, verdana, sans-serif]It seems that Derrida's remark is substantially relevant to this issue of classification schemes associated with phrasal verbs. Every discussion of phrasal verbs seems to break down in some regard, but if we keep the conversation going, some principles will emerge. We just might be looking at this from the wrong perspective. That's my suspicion. There is an answer. We need a paradigm shift. We're looking at the sun and can't help but imagine it revolving around earth. We're looking at phrasal verbs and can't but help imagine that they are ... what?[/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, century gothic, verdana, sans-serif]It seems that Derrida's remark is substantially relevant to this issue of classification schemes associated with phrasal verbs. Every discussion of phrasal verbs seems to break down in some regard, but if we keep the conversation going, some principles will emerge. We just might be looking at this from the wrong perspective. That's my suspicion. There is an answer. We need a paradigm shift. We're looking at the sun and can't help but imagine it revolving around earth. We're looking at phrasal verbs and can't but help imagine that they are ... what?[/FONT]