Re: Ideas for deriving verbs from nouns
| From: | Dennis Paul Himes <dennis@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 27, 2001, 2:54 |
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Amanda Babcock <langs@...> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:35:28PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
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> > AllNoun is the ultimate in this direction: the language is literally all
> > nouns, except for five particles.
>
> 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?
Neither Gladilatian (http://www.connix.com/~dennis/glad/lang.htm) nor
Kélen (http://home.netcom.com/~sylvia1/Kelen/kelen.html) have verbs. Kélen
was invented my Sylvia Sotomayer, and Gladilatian is mine.
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