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

Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> > 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.
What's a (morpho)syntactic distribution?