Re: Argument Structures
| From: | Marcus Smith <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 24, 2000, 2:20 |
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At 8/23/00 08:58 PM -0500, you wrote:
>Marcus Smith wrote:
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>> > I think having numbers as verbs
>> > is a really cool feature to have in a language.
>>
>> It is quite a common feature in Native American languages.
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>But do these same languages also treat all adjectives as verbs
>as well, or just numbers?
As far as I'm aware, they all treat adjectives as verbs. I tend to think
(without any hard evidence) that any language that treats numbers as verbs
must
do the same with adjectives.
Marcus