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

>From: Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
>At 5:22 pm +0000 19/6/00, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> >Ray Brown wrote:
> >
> >><soap-box>
> >>This is one reason that I, personally, do not like the idea of
> >>part-of-speech notation in an conIAL; it seems to me that one is forcing
>a
> >>particular speech pattern - essentially Latin-based - onto something I
>feel
> >>would be better with the flexibility of English & Chinese.
> >><end of soap-box>
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

DaW.
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