Re: Languages without verbs

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:43:51 -0000, 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.
More like fifteen than five, though several are obsolescent:
  http://archives.conlang.info/tu/vuantaen/tree.html

More generally I have the impression that we've had the thread on what verbs
such a language a language which favours the light verb strategy is likely
to have within the last year, but I can't find any archives of that.

Alex

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