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Re: Adjectives vs. stative verbs, plus general info

From:wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...>
Date:Saturday, March 16, 2002, 18:37
Jesse Raccio nevesht:>
> >Well, I am exploring my possiblities for the lang I am >putting together. I am curious if anyone else has >played with removing adjectives all together and >simply using stative verbs? I figured that in complex >sentences one would break it into a stative verb >phrase and append a tran/intrans verb to these >phrases. >
In Lisanek, I use stative verbs in relative clauses as attributive adjectives. e.g. fox.the to-be-quick.rel to-be-brown.rel jump.past over dog.the to-be-lazy.rel -Wayne Chevrier _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx