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

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 0:04
>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. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com