Re: Adjectives vs. stative verbs, plus general info
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 16, 2002, 17:27 |
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En réponse à Jesse Raccio <jraja0722@...>:
> 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.
>
My O indeed uses stative verbs for adjectives. Its relative clauses use
nominalisation of the verb (infinitive clauses), so the thing works quite
well :)) . You may want to take example on what is done in Japanese. In this
language, one class of adjectives (the adjectives in -i) is really a class of
stative verbs, those adjectives behaving more like verbs than nouns, except for
politeness marking.
Christophe.
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