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Re: verbs = nouns?

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 9, 2001, 2:50
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:44:49 -0500 Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...>
writes:
> Does anyone know of any lang, preferrably a natlang, in which the same > words serve as nouns and as verbs? I know it can be done with > adjectives and nouns, but are nouns and verbs equivalent in any > system? > -M > -- > Saráth evenü, cán el-sayü liné! > "He has seen but half the universe who never has been shewn the house > of Pain.' -Emerson
- Well, besides English (which everyone's said already, but i didn't realize myself) there's Hebrew. Hebrew present tense verbs were originally nouns, or something like that. So the sentence _hu shomeir_ can mean "he guards" or "he is a guard" (since Hebrew doesn't really have a copula either). When it comes to conlangs, all verbs in Rokbeigalmki are also nouns. khaz = sight azu-khaz = i saw (az = i ; -u = past) -Stephen (Steg) "Language is the dance of abstraction on the shifting ground of the particular." ~ TwinkleBelle @ IRC DALnet