Re: genitive
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 2, 2002, 19:47 |
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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.
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