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Re: genitive

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Thursday, May 2, 2002, 19:47
At 12:25 am +0100 2/5/02, And Rosta wrote:
>Ray: >> Yep - and I have seriously considered (and may well implement) having all >> 'adjectives' as verbs in BrSc. It makes sense to have them as finite verbs >> when predicative, and as verbal participles (or maybe 'relativized verbs') >> when attributive. > >Why preserve the finite:participle or predicative:attributive distinctions >in your IAL? Because of their familiarity to speakers of eurolangs? >
As I've said before, nothing has been ruled in & nothing (or at least not much) ruled out. But these distinctions are by no means confined to languages of European origin. Ray. ====================== XRICTOC ANECTH ======================