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Re: allnoun

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 20, 1999, 19:22
Raymond A. Brown wrote:

> Not only that but, e.g. in {table:on} {on} looks like and acts like a > postposition. I know 'officially' it is a noun meaning > "thing(s)-something-is-on" but as Gary Shannon said of his 'nouns' which > some thought were verbs: "If it looks like a verb, and walks like a verb, > and quacks like a verb ... YIKES! it's a verb!" > > I say that {on} looks like a postposition, and walks like a postposition, > and quacks like a postposition....YIKES!..........
Would you believe it better if the gloss were "superpositee" rather than "on"? In Lojban, the verb "zvati" is glossed "at", but really means "be at".
> I would say 'pronounceable morphemes' rather than 'pronounceable words', > but that's probably just a matter of semantics.
"Word" has no cross-linguistic definition anyhow. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)