Re: describing names

Quoting Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>:

Thomas Wier wrote:
> > There are two points to be made here. First,
> > different languages often have very different ways
> > of indicating the copulative relation. Some, like
> > most IE languages and English, use a fully inflected
> > verb. Others (like Chinese)  never use any copula,
> > use invariant particles in the place of verbs, or
> > (like Phaleran) use a mixture of these: copulative
> > particle in ongoing or habitual actions, fully
> > conjugated verb in other aspects.
>
> You can distinguish in Kerno with the verb "llamar"
> (call or name) which couldn't be used with a simple
> adjective unless that _were_ her name:
You're right.  Lexicalization is almost always a possible
route.

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