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