Re: Only verbs and nouns

In a message dated 01/20/02 10:13:05 PM, dawier@YAHOO.COM writes:

<< I feel the attitude taken by the grammarian, whose name I forgot, was
classical Eurocentris; he was probably implying that somehow Semitic
languages aren't as sophisticated as Indo-European languages. >>

    Actually, there are three words in Arabic which correspond to "nouns",
"verbs" and "everything else".  That probably prompted the labeling.  I
forget what the words are, though...  Something to do with f-3-l, s-m and
then the other...?  I forget.  Man, I need to take Arabic again!

-David

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