Re: Languages without adjectives

Padraic Brown wrote:
> I think technically Talarian doesn't have (real) adjectives either.
> At least not full-time adjectives with a pension scheme.  Nouns and
> adjectives are all declined alike, so morphologically there is no
> difference. Semantically, sactas (holy) contains within it the
> adjectival meaning "holy" as well as the nominal function of "thing
> for which the name is 'holy' ", what in English would be holiness.
> Something like using an adjective as a noun (Blue is the colour of my
> true loves eyes, to reuse a recent example.)
>
> Padraic.
I think this is an IE trait, as it is the same in Sanskrit and Aredos.
Sanskrit also has the zero-copula, which I think came up earlier in the
list:
svalpam sukham krodhah: anger [is] a small pleasure.