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Re: TYPOLOGY: (conlangs and natlangs): "Tense-Prominent" vs "Aspect-Prominent"

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Friday, August 18, 2006, 20:35
Hallo!

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:41:13 +0100, Chris Bates wrote:

> I'd be very interested to know what typological generalizations it > proposes, if you've read it. :) From "Adjective Classes: A Cross > Linguistic Typology" I know of the following claims regarding stative > verbs and verby adjectives vs nouny adjectives: > > 1) > if a language is head marking, it will have verb-y adjectives > if a language is dependent marking, it will have noun-y adjectives, or > adjectives will form a separate class > > (2) > if a language is aspect prominent (to use the terminology of Bhat), it > will have verb-y adjectives > if a language is tense prominent, it will have noun-y adjectives, or > adjectives will form a separate class
Old Albic is mostly dependent-marking and somewhere in the middle between aspect-prominent and tense-prominent, and has rather nouny adjectives. ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf