Re: Languages without verbs

be, do, go, have . . .

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:43 PM, caeruleancentaur <
caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:

> > Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>
> > A common thing is to remove *most* verbs, often leaving only one
> > verb. Japanese is famous for borrowing verbs as nouns and
> > using 'suru' (to do) to make it a verb in Japanese.  And Basque,
> > IIRC, only has very few verbs, in the order of five.
>
> What are those five verbs?  I'm trying to think what are the verbs
> that would be included in this minimalist list of verbs.
>
> I'm thinking of "do," "be," "move."  I guess not "be."
>
> Charlie
>


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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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