Re: Nouns, verbs, adjectives... and why they're pointless

At 12:19 10/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>> And what about Mandarin, that makes no
>> syntactic distinction between nouns and verbs (only a semantic
>> distinction),
>
>Eh? AFAIK the distinction between nouns and verbs is more rigid
>than in English (where every noun can be verbed, and many verbs
>can be nounified with an appropriate suffix).
>
        Really? but is it a syntactic distinction or a semantic one?

>--
>John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
>        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
>        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
>                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
>
>
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