Re: Nouns with arguments, verbs without arguments
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 10, 2003, 9:10 |
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En réponse à Herman Miller <hmiller@...>:
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> So I'm wondering if there are any other langs that work like this.
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Well, I don't know if there is any language with verbs that cannot take any
argument (but that wouldn't surprise me with impersonal verbs like
indeed "rain"). But as for nouns, there are plenty of languages where a class
of nouns has mandatory possession, i.e. a noun of this class cannot appear
without a possessor, even if it's only a possessive adjective or affix (usually
an affix in the case of those languages). My Chasmäöcho has mandatory possessed
nouns. They usually refer to parts of the body or family members, and to refer
to the noun without a possessor, you use the 3rd person plural possessive affix
on them (IIRC).
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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