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

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.

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