Re: allnoun
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 21, 1999, 15:08 |
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Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 20/04/99 20:03:42 , Ed a =E9crit :
<< And how could you justify calling "act-of-throwing" a verb and
not calling the gerund "throwing" in English a verb? It acts like a noun i=
n
English, and act-of-throwing acts like a noun in AllNoun -- fits in the sam=
e
slots in the grammar.
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Whether it's a noun or a verb does not really matter as long as the=20
substantive or gerund refers to a process whose actors are the other nouns o=
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the AllNoun sentence.
the verb "to throw" is present in "throwing", "thrower", "projectile", etc.
That's what all conlangers who tried an all-noun syntax are to experience.
Mathias=20