Re: Languages without verbs

--- On Fri, 11/14/08, David McCann <david@...> wrote:

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>
> Some Papuan languages are like that. Kalam is said to have
> less than 100
> verbs, and only a couple of dozen are in general use:
Ogden's Basic English has 6 verbs and 15 "operators":

verbs : be   become   cause   make   do   have


operators:

      be , have , come - go , put - take , give - get ,
      make , keep , let , do , say , see , send ,
      cause and because are occasionally used as operators;
      seem was later added.

--gary

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