Re: Languages without adjectives

Fredrik Ekman wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Has anyone ever used this in a constructed language? How does it work?
This has been discussed before quite a lot... such languages usually
turn
their adjectives into verbs.  "The moon whites," etc.  Lots of stative
verbs.

The fox that quicks and reds jumped over the dog that lazies and
browns.  Or:
The quicking redding fox jumps over the lazying browning dog.
;-)

> If it has not been used in conlangs, can anyone point me in the direction
> of some natural languages with this feature?
A number of conlangs do this kind of thing.  I think, IIRC, I responded
to
Luca Mangiat, who was experimenting with something along these lines.
Was
it Luca?

Sally
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