Re: genitive

Ebera wrote:

<<Adjective *is* a noun case. The noun marked at the adjective provides an
additional information on the quality or the state of its referent. Just
like the locative provides an information on where its referent is.>>

    [Satire beginning] What?  How could you possibly think this?  There are
no such things as nouns.  Maybe you got this idea from *your* language and
the others you've studied, but that's not the way it really is, oh no.  You
see, in the *real* world, nouns don't exist; only verbs do.  There are verbs
meaning "to be a mother", "to be a rock", "to be a stapler", etc.  Adjectives
are just just a part of these verbs, so you'll have one verb which means "to
be a stapler" and another which means "to be a red stapler".  I really don't
see how you could possibly have missed this.  [Satire end]

    Point being, any type of classification which puts one idea over another
and identifies one method of classification as clearly superior and
necessarily more realistic than another type of classification isn't valid,
because true abstraction is impossible.  The classification you came up with
seems more reactionary, in that because European language classify
description in one way, then, logically, the other way of classifying
description must be the "correct", "real" way.  Such an argument is illogical.

And Jesse wrote:

<<You're close to something true here, but you're not exactly right.  It is
true that adjectives are not really a category of their own.>>

    Ditto.

-David

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