Re: new parts of speech/cases

>After being halfway through the quarter in my linguistic typology/language
>universals class, i have come to learn/think that parts of speech and cases
>are not at all universal across languages. Trying to name the things in
>Minyeva using the nomenclature of european languages is thus futile. So, i
>decided to come up with a couple extra names for what happens in my
>language; I was wondering if i could get some comments on the names and/or
>suggestions for better names:
This all reminds me of a thread I remember on some newsgroup about pronouns
vs. proverbs. And if there are words that stand for a previous verb. Anyway,
sorry I'm not really commenting on your categories, but I agree: parts of
speech are not cut and dried.

Jake

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