Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27

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From: "João Ricardo Oliveira" <hokstein@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4:00 AM
Subject: Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27


> I'm sorry, I made a mistake. "Sentence" is the wrong concept. In
Portuguese,
> we call it _oração_, which is a statement that expresses an action, a
> characteristic of something, a state, a continuity of state or a change of
> state. I don't know what it is called in English.
>
> Let me try to rephrase it: Whenever a verb is present, it is the most
> important part of the sentence.
>
> João Ricardo Oliveira
Sentence is the right word.  I think these guys are wrong.  But only in
English, and a few other IE langs.  There are a lot of Languages that don't
have a verb 'to be' and just slam two nouns together, quite gramatically.