Re: PoS & heretics (was: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others))
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 11:36 |
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At 19:04 20.6.2000 -0500, Danny Wier wrote:
>Not to mention that Arabic "technically" only has three parts of speech:
>verbs, nouns and particles (prepositions, conjunctions, relatives,
>demonstratives, definite article). And most nouns are forms of verbs
>anyway. Adjectives are in effect verbs of state.
Pretty much the Sanskrit grammarian analysis too: they have nouns and
adjectives in one class (naaman), verbs in one class (karman) and
everything else is _anubhakti_ "helpful addition". Actually they derive
most naamaani and anubhaktyaas from karmaani anyways.
Funus (my conlang) grammarians have only two classes, called the Moving
Word and the Resting Word. What we call verbs would be Moving, while nouns
and most adverbs would be Resting. Adjectives would be Moving, except
participles, which would be Resting. All Resting forms can be construed as
infinite forms of Moving/verb forms.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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