> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Bennett
> On top of this, some words that prima facie fit clearly-defined
> European POS are actually turning out to be compounds and
derivations
> of things in quite different POS. Some nouns turn out to be
verbs
> wearing silly hats. Some verbs reveal themselves to be
adjectives
> doing a funny voice. Some adjectives are unmasked as
> verb.verb.something-else compounds. There seem to be
monophonemic
> verbs, incorporating either nouns XOR prounouns, and/or with
implicit
> anaphors. I think some pronouns might actually be adjectives
and/or
> verbs, too. Speaker-biological-gender-dependent forms of "Yes"
(but
> not of anything else). Prefixes, postfixes, and circumfixes, oh
my.
What no agglutinative experiential markers? They're pretty
standard in American languages.