Re: nouns-verbs

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 03:55:33 -0500, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:

>I was reading a general linguistic book today and I read something to threw
>me in a very deep thinking!
>
>It was talking about simple different way for languages to represent things
>like the 6 word orders, the ergativity that kind of stuff
>
>But after it continued with similarities between all languages
>
>One of them was the fact that all languages divided nouns and verbs in two
>types of words
>
>In every tongue there is a difference between a verb and a noun
>
>In ALL dialects we can take a sheet and write nouns on one side and verbs on
>the other side
>
>Is that true? Do you know or have heard of a language where this is not
>true? Did one of you invent a conlang without that thing?
>...
>Someone has a conlang concept without "verb-noun" division????
Just take a look at Chatiga, which I shortly posted here (see link in my sig
for the webpage). It doesn't make a distinction between nouns and verbs, as
it has no verbs - still works just fine.

--
Pascal A. Kramm, author of:
Chatiga: http://www.choton.org/chatiga/
Choton: http://www.choton.org
Ichwara Prana: http://www.choton.org/ichwara/
Skälansk: http://www.choton.org/sk/
Advanced English: http://www.choton.org/ae/

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