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Re: Argument Structures

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 23, 2000, 21:57
Jonathan Jones wrote:

> In addition, all words are derived from verbs, so there should, > theoretically, be only one class of words. (Oh, apart from numbers, > I suspect.)
Why couldn't you have numbers as verbs? You can have "to be one in number" as a verb, and probably do just fine. Chickasaw does, IIRC, and they seem to manage. I think having numbers as verbs is a really cool feature to have in a language. Daniel