Re: Nouns with arguments, verbs without arguments
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 11, 2003, 22:06 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> 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").
Spanish verbs like _llover_ (I think that's the word) have no arguments,
do they?
The nouns remind me of classifiers in langs like Chinese or Japanese,
some of which can only occur with numbers, e.g., _sannin onna_
(three-person woman). _Nin_ can't occur by itself.
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