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> Finally, can anybody suggest pointers with examples (conlang or natlang)
> on various systems of deriving verbs from nouns? Or languages where there
> is no distinction between nouns and verbs, but the core words are more
> nounlike than verblike (unlike Lojban, where gismu feel more like verbs
> than nouns to me). There are a lot of conlangs out there, and if
someone's
> already done this I'd love to look at their work :) I think I just need
to
> break through a conceptual barrier here.
It sounds like you need to download and study Rick Morneau's Lexical
Semantics essay. I suspect a complete verb-noun merge is impossible, as
certain nouns do not have any verb that could logically be ascribed to them
(rabbit? metaphysics? breadbox?).
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Fabian
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