Mia Soderquist wrote:
>While sitting in a waiting room recently, I scribbled out a system of
verbs
>where every verb has two parts-- an auxiliary that carries
>tense/aspect/mode/person/number, and then the part that carries the
>content.
Two thoughts:
(1) I have a very vague memory that Hindi does something like this.
Anybody?
(2) This seems to be on the brink of turning into a single-open-class
language, if the content verbs behave identically to other content words
in terms of syntax (and why shouldn't they?).
Jonathan.
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