Re: Syntaxy-Turvy (long, crazy)

Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:00:39 +0200, Christophe Grandsire
> <Christophe.Grandsire@...> wrote:
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> >(there are All-Nouns,
> >All-Verbs,
>
> All-Verbs? Can you give any reference? I overlooked it somehow...
>
> Basilius

While there are other examples, my own Nova is more or less
all-verb.  The reason being that while I call some things nouns,
verbs, statives, they are all seen as events of varying duration.
If the event lasts long enough, it is a noun, an intermediate
time, it is a stative, a brief time, a verb.  "House" is a noun,
"cloud" is a stative, "cough" is a verb, but all are inflected for
aspect.  For example, one need not say "a house is being built"
rather, "house+inceptive aspect".

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