Re: Only verbs and nouns
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 21, 2002, 6:29 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
> ObConlang: The Techian grammarians describe their language as having those
> same three parts of speech
As do the Kassi, but that comes from their focus on inflections. So,
they have words grouped into "nouns" "verbs" and "uninflected words".
Adjectives are considered a subclass of nouns (even tho they can be
turned into verbs by adding the prefix sa-, which is obligatory when
adjectives are used as predicates, while nouns cannot take that prefix,
also adjectives take infixes for comparative and superlative)
Incidentally, their word for "gender" means "clan", while for "case"
means simply "shape".
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