Re: All-verb language - instalment 1

 --- Roger Mills wrote:
> Estel Telcontar wrote:
> > 1.  Normal verbs.
(...)
> > 2. "Adjectival verbs".
(...)
> > 3. "Prepositional verbs".
(...)
> > 4. "Nominal verbs"
> > Essentially equivalent to English "BE" + noun.
> > Can be intransitive or transitive.  If intransitive,
> > meaning is as above:
> > BE.[a/the]HUMAN, BE.DOG, BE.HOUSE, etc.
> > If transitive, the syntactic direct object is
> > semantically a posessor, so transitive nominal verbs
> > might be glossed thus:
> > BE.HOUSE.OF, BE.DOG.OF
> >
> > That's all the four categories.  All words belong to one of these
> > categories.  What do youguys think?
>
> I am curious-- are pronouns and personal names verbs of Category 4
> too?  How
> about quantifiers and demonstratives-- every, all; that, these etc.??

Well, I haven't figured all of this out yet. Yes, personal names are
verbs of category 4.  Possibly pronouns would be too, but mostly
subject and object affixes are sufficient.  I haven't figured out
quantifiers and demonstratives at all yet.

Estel

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