Re: Index issues
| From: | Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 7, 2005, 12:18 |
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Adrian, do you mean
http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/create/language/twisted.htm this
page? One thing: verbs being a closed class is attested in some natlangs
(you say not on page). :) I'm fairly certain there are australian
languages which have a very limited number of verbs, and you could also
argue Basque, which has only at most 12 verbs with finite forms, has a
closed class of true verbs, since the forms used with these auxilliaries
are:
a) Verbal nouns (well, actually verbal noun + locative marking, eg "at
X-ing").
b) Participles which act like adjectives