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

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, December 11, 1998, 7:33
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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