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Re: THEORY: Adpositional Heads

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Friday, September 12, 2003, 3:38
Tommie L Powell wrote:
> "I" is a pronoun, not a noun, and, unlike nouns, pronouns cannot be > modified (in English or in any other language that I know of).
Actually, AFAIK, in Japanese, pronouns can be freely modified. Of course, arguably, pronouns are simply a subclass of nouns in Japanese. I can't think of any actual examples off hand. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42