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Re: do be do be do

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 26, 1999, 18:46
Fabian <rhialto@...>
> > But what I was after was an example of a language where there is no do verb. > What could be used instead? >
"What could be used instead" would probably be called "do". Maybe it's a (pro-)verb, or an auxiliary, or an affix (like Japanese _suru_ in your examples). In any case, if there were no verb "do" to be used more or less as in English, another verb (or grammar artifact) would surely fill in its space. --Pablo Flores