Re: Adjective verb compounding
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 19:29 |
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:06:59PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Some adjectives are considered verbs in Japanese, tho with their own set
> of endings. However, there are some restrictions to what inflections
> adjectives can take.
So some adjectives are verbal, but not completely interchangeable with
other verbs.
> However, not all adjectives are inflected this way. Some are
> uninflected, and marked with _na_ when used attributively:
> "Na" is often described as a form of "da", "to be", when used
> attributively.
Huh. In my informal lack-of-study of Japanese, I had sort of assumed
that the words used with "na" were actually nouns by themselves,
and that "na" was a sort of denominalizing adjectivizer.
-Mark