Re: Ideas for deriving verbs from nouns
| From: | Amanda Babcock <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 26, 2001, 3:46 |
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:35:28PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> AllNoun is the ultimate in this direction: the language is literally all
> nouns, except for five particles. AllNoun imports the whole English
> noun vocabulary, although a unique vocabulary could be created from it.
Thanks for the URL. I had "AllNoun" in the back of my mind somewhere
but hadn't looked it up yet. Neat, but isolating.
Anybody have some more candidates? The more info, the better. Wasn't
there an alien language in a book that didn't do verbs as such?
Languages that do have verbs but derive them from nouns would be especially
helpful, just so I can see how they approached the problem.
I think I'll go meditate on the role of "-en" in "hasten", and how it can
be generalized to other types of changes.
Thanks,
Amanda
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