Re: genitive

Nik Taylor wrote:
>ebera wrote:
> > In the way they work, adjectives are nouns.
>
>In European languages, yes, but not in all languages.  Japanese, among
>many others, treats certain adjectives as verbs, complete with past
>tense, negative inflections (Japanese verbs inflect for
>positive/negative), polite forms (altho for adjectives that consists
>merely of adding _desu_), and so on.  There are other languages that
>treat *all* adjectives as verbs.
>
>FWIW, Uatakassi (my conlang) treats adjectives like nouns when they're
>used descriptively (e.g., "old woman"), but as verbs when they're used
>as predicates (e.g., "the woman is old")
AFMCL, Kalini Sapak treats adjectives as verbs when used as predicates, but
as a category of their own when used descriptively. Then, Kalini Sapak is
the language that marks gender on verbs and adjectives, but not on nouns.

                                                Andreas

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