Re: Argument Structures

Marcus Smith wrote:

> At 8/23/00 08:58 PM -0500, you wrote:
> >Marcus Smith wrote:
> >
> >> > 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.
> >
> >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.
That is, at any rate, an extremely reasonable universal you
have there.

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