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Re: Verbs derived from noun cases

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Thursday, April 22, 2004, 13:51
Hi!

Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> writes:
>... > The answer is either indefinite, for reasons Henrik explained, or zero. > Tom Breton managed to banish verbs from his AllNoun without any recourse > to noun cases.
I'd consider one case the same as zero cases. :-) And if you only have one class of things, I'd consider it arbitrary whether to call them nouns or verbs. Depends on what semantical concepts you start with. But then, the distinction would be more like state, event or even physical object. The naming 'noun' vs. 'verb' is too syntactical, so I would consider 'AllNouns' is a misnomer. He just has one open lexical class (plus a few tree-structuring particles) as many other conlangs (and even a few natlangs, e.g. Nootka (cf. Mithun)), too. **Henrik

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