Re: question about classifiers
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 5, 1999, 2:09 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> Why have classifiers? You already use seperate verbs for things like
> "read".
Er, what I meant, of course, was why add new classifiers.
Of course, any category could add new items. So, perhaps, after a word
meaning "travel" is used a lot of times for various vessels (like "They
built it. It travels thru space"), it might be worn down to a pronoun,
becoming a suffix.
How do you handle prepositions?
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