Re: PoS & heretics (was: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others))

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, 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.
>
> I personally see adjectives as nouns, since in many languages (or am I being
> biased towards IE and Kartvelian?) adjectives are declined as nouns, with
> minor differences with some
Interesting. I tend to see adjectives as verbs, since they also
have predicative function. Tepa has been designed accordingly.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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