Re: Nouns with arguments, verbs without arguments

In a message dated 4/9/2003 9:46:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, hmiller@IO.COM
writes:


> I recently learned that some Lindiga nouns have
> required arguments, and there are even Lindiga verbs that can't take any
> arguments at all.
> (snip)
> So I'm wondering if there are any other langs that work like this.
>
IIRC, in Esperanto "It rained" is "Pluvis" with no subject and no other
argument.

I've toyed with the idea of having nouns like "group" take an "object" in my
conlang.  After all, you can't have a group unless it's a group of
_something_.  (The object would be obligatory unless you marked "group" with
a suffix analogous to the one that makes a transitive verb into an
intransitive verb.)

Doug

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