Re: THEORY: questions
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 22, 2001, 22:58 |
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Christophe Grandsire ga kakimashita:
> (of course, those pronouns can be former nouns that were specialised,
> like in Japanese).
Earlier you argued that adjectives which act as nouns or as verbs
shouldn't be called a separate class, yet Japanese pronouns likewise act
like nouns. :-) It's even been argued that Japanese has no pronouns.
> Comox has a verb meaning 'to be what?' -, etc...)
Interesting! So, how do you say things like "What did you see?"
> I would add the necessity of 'or' too (disjunction is as essential as
> association).
Actually, there are languages without a word for "or". I'm sure they
have some other way of making that distinction, tho.
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