Re: Adjectives as Verbs

Chris wrote:

<<If anyone has any I'd really like examples from as many different
languages as possible which have verbs fulfilling the role of adjectives
on how it works, how they do comparitives/superlatives, how they make
the verb relative (are there any which use a relative pronoun? Or do
they all inflect the verb to mark it as relative? etc). Thanks in Advance,>>

It may not be realistic, but for my language Zhyler, you can turn anything
into an adjective by switching the stress.   This includes verbs.   So, let's
say
you have the sentence:

sexa pettir matlar
man king-acc. see-past
"The king saw the man"

You could just put the verb in front of the noun, switching the stress from
ultimate to penultimate, and get:

matlar sexa

This would mean "The having-seen-somebody/thing man".   It's kind of a
relative clause.

Oh, I actually have a web page on adjectives in Zhyler.   It's not done yet,
but
I think it's done enough for what you're interested in.   Check out the
section
on combinatory adjectives:

http://dedalvs.free.fr/zhyler/adjectives.html

-David
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