Re: Adjectives as Verbs

Alas, I'm no good at citing you natlang examples, but Teonaht, yet another
AFMCL post, has the stative verb, which of course doesn't cover all
possibilities for the adjective, only some states of being--many colors,
temperatures--which of course acquire new meanings: "I cold" means "I become
rigid, removed, impervious, unforgiving," etc.  "I present, I absent, I
young," and so forth.

Sally

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bates" <chris.maths_student@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 12:40 PM
Subject: Adjectives as Verbs


> Sorry if you get two copies... I didn't seem to come through before.
>
> 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,
>
> Chris. :)
>
> (My current project is a little strange... after the discussion about
> that new auxlang a little while ago I decided to make my own toy auxlang
> and do it properly, instead of making a euroclone, just for fun. I
> wasn't planning on trying to persuade anyone to actually use it... I've
> kindof drifted though, and its become more of a con/artlang, with things
> that are probably not a good idea in an auxlang, like a switch system (I
> love those!). I'm asking about adjectives as verbs because I decided not
> to have a separate class of adjectives...)
>