Re: CHAT: affricates/grammar help/intransitivity/free word order

#1 wrote:
> are there languages using others affricates than [t_-S], [d_-Z], [ts],
> or [dz]?
Yes; others have already provided examples.

> I would also like to know if there are languages where intransitivity
> doesn't exists
Perhaps, if you mean underlyingly:  such a language would derive all
verbal transitive predicates from instransitive stative or active
verbs.

> It's because I would like to avoid having to deal with sentences
> without object it would ruin my system
I'm not sure how it would ruin your system, and I doubt you could get
away with no transitivity (derived or not) at all.

> can a language without an almost clear way to recognize verbs from
> nouns have a free or variable word other? by "an almost clear way to
> recognize verbs from nouns" I mean like in spanish, each verbs end in
> "r" or in french, each verbs end in sounds [R] ("ir", "oir", "re") or
> [e] ("er"). but in english for example there's no way to distinc verbs
> from nouns and, sometimes, from adjectives making that a word like
> "grow" can be a verb or a noun
This isn't true, though:  English often zero-derives verbs from nouns or
vice-versa, but they still have different (morpho)syntactic distributions.

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