Re: genitive
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 1:04 |
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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")
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