Re: verbs = nouns?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 10, 2001, 21:10 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> The noun covers both what we now ('traditionally') call adjective as well
> as what we now call noun;
Oh, yeah - I got "noun" and "substantive" reversed, and was thinking
that "substantive" had been used for both noun and adjective.
Nevertheless, my point stands that today people don't usually call
adjectives "nouns" in IE langs. So, to be consistent, one should either
count adjectives as a separate category in both IE langs and langs like
Chinese and Japanese, or count them as nouns in IE langs and as verbs in
Chinese. Considering it a separate category makes cross-linguistic
comparison easier.
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