Re: aspects / nasal consonants / meanings
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 10, 2005, 11:54 |
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:21:31 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
> Are there natlangs that dont distingish verbs like "to eat" and "to drink"
> and link them in a single word?
There are certainly some which draw the distinction differently: for
example, in English, you generally "eat" soup, while in Japanese, you
"drink" it AFAIK.
> or that distinct more types of drinking and eating with suffixes or
> independant words for "water", "fruit", "medication/drug", "blood",
> "meat"...
I wonder this, too.
I know conlang examples for both questions (one verb for everything,
and three verbs for food/soup or stew/liquids), but you did ask for
natlangs.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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