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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. -- Brad Coon bcoon@imt.net Somedays when you wake up, its just not worth chewing through the leather straps.