Re: Languages without adjectives

From: "FFlores"

> >Some time ago I read an article about languages which mentioned in
passing
> >that some languages have no or few adjectives, using (if I understood the
> >article correctly) nouns and verbs(?) for the same purposes.
> Draseléq uses stative verbs instead of adjectives. In predicative
> position, you just use them as any other verb:
>
>     Gim        fa.
>     be_true.3s this
>     'This is true.'
>
>     Dimek       màss.
>     be_green.3p trees
>     'Trees are green.'
>
> For attributive adjectives, you use the participles of the verb:
>
>     dimel       màss
>     be_green.AP trees    (AP = active participle)
>     'green trees' (trees being-green)
Nouns and adjectives in Géarthnuns, while closely related, are different
creatures; a little more tweeking than just adding an article needs to be
done to make an adjective a noun. I found a while back that adjectives which
cannot be used attributively in English often pop up in Géarthnuns as
"stative verbs". I.e.

vdal  to be constipated

?the constipated man (a little weird in my idiolect).

So, there is a noun for "green", but there's also an adjective proper.

chí gefröls dhaul
the book-nom green-nom
the green book

Chí gefröls la dhaul nöi.
the book-nom pres green-nom be
The book is green.

Chö dhaubs lü sí shüföls cha ensas nöi.
the green-nom transcendent a color-nom the spectrum-gen be
Green is a color of the spectrum.

no stative verb

But:

Chöi séklets la vdal.
the child-nom pres be.constipated
The child is constipated.

?the constipated child
chöi séklets vdalalöt
the child-nom being.constipated-nom (a participle)

or

chöi séklets, chöit la vdal sho...
the child-nom, who-nom pres be.constipated sho
the child who is constipated....

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