Re: PoS & heretics (was: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others))
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 22, 2000, 10:44 |
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At 19:56 21.6.2000 -0600, Brad Coon wrote:
>dirk elzinga wrote:
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> > Interesting. I tend to see adjectives as verbs, since they also
> > have predicative function. Tepa has been designed accordingly.
> >
> > Dirk
> >
>
>I have to agree. I first came across the axiom "adjectives are
>substantives" early in my linguistic apprenticeship. It has always
>felt intuitively wrong.
Yes. The lack of formal distinction between the two in Latin and Sanskrit
rubbed me the wrong way from day one. I didn't know it was because I felt
that adjectives were predicates until later, tho.
OTOH nouns can be predicates too, as in Russian _ja soldat_.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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