Re: PoS & heretics (was: Cases and Prepositions (amongst others))
From: | Brad Coon <bcoon@...> |
Date: | Thursday, June 22, 2000, 1:56 |
dirk elzinga wrote:
> 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.
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