Re: A Language built around a novel grammar

On Nov 11, 2006, at 6:09 PM, li_sasxsek@NUTTER.NET wrote:

> li [Weld Carter, Jr.] mi tulis la
>
>> Has anyone here done or seen work on a language relying on a grammar
>> that does not require the noun/verb distinction? Though this may
>> sound preposterous, I know of at least a few Native-American tongues
>> that function that way. One member of such a speech community got
>> reported to my colleague, Andy as saying, “I can speak all day
>> without using a single noun.”
>
> In Sasxsek, verb and nouns have identical forms.  The lack of
> distinction is intentionally there to blur the lines between noun and
> verb.  This made it possible to link verbs just as if they were
> objects
> of the preceding verb.
Could you give us an example of linking verbs like objects? I looked
a little at your web site but didn't quite find that phenomenon.

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