Re: Adjective verb compounding
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 17:13 |
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:58:12PM +0100, Peter Bleackley wrote:
> Does anyone else have a language that uses adjective-verb compounding? In
> Khangaþyagon, when an adjective is used as a predicate, it compounds with
> the verb.
Well, in Okaikiar, adjectives *are* verbs, and occur most naturally
as predicates: "Zudal kademem."/"The man is wicked.". To use one
attributively you put it in the attributive "mood", thereby avoiding
wordy relative clauses such as "man who is wicked"/"zudal zian
kademem"; you can just say "wicked man"/"zudal kademom". Of course,
Klingon just lets stative verbs follow nouns and thereby function
as adjectives without any extra grammatical marking whatsoever,
but that's typical of Klingon.
I'm curious, though; what natlangs have verbal adjectives? You mentioned
adjective tenses in Japanese?
-Mark
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