Re: Languages without verbs
| From: | Michael Poxon <mike@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 13, 2008, 18:34 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: Languages without verbs
My conlang, Omina, which has Basque influences, likewise only has a handful
of verbs
(hardly 'verbs' at all, more just carriers onto which personal and aspectual
suffixes can be attached)
Mike
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.