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Re: Ideas for deriving verbs from nouns

From:Dennis Paul Himes <dennis@...>
Date:Friday, April 27, 2001, 2:54
Amanda Babcock <langs@...> wrote:
> > 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. > > 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. =========================================================================== Dennis Paul Himes <> dennis@himes.connix.com http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air." - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse 96-99

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