Re: Re : Re: Re : Case, Innateness, Almost Allnoun, NGL.

grandsir wrote:
>         Is that derivation?
Yeah, it's a special kind of derivation, called zero-derivation.
There's actually evidence that that is a real process, and not a
linguist's fiction.  In cases of anominal aphasia (the loss of nouns),
nouns like "comb" are lost, while the verb "comb" is retained,
suggesting that they are genuinely stored as separate items in the
brain.

> fokezif: person who
> has a certain title (difficult to translate, I know).
A titled person.

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