Re: Itakian 'to have'(was Re: Varon)
From: | Chris Palmer <cecibean@...> |
Date: | Sunday, January 20, 2002, 3:26 |
On 19 Jan, nicole dobrowolski wrote:
> in narethanaal reduplication turns adjectives, verbs (including
> adjectival verbs), adpositions, and conjunctions into nouns... though
> i'm still working out the details of when one would use a conjunction
> in noun form ;)... and i was actually monkeying around with an idea of
> reduplicating nouns into nouns (or another form of noun) but it's
> really confusing and probably won't work...
That's cool. Carving out the numerous types of nouns is one of the big
fun questions about vocabulary and morphology creation. Be careful about
overloading reduplication, though.
> well... i posted one to the list a month or two ago..
Okay, I'll dig through the archives later on then. Thanks.
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