Bill Bonde ('Soli Deo Gloria') wrote:
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
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> > Of course it's nonsense, since the *concept* of possession exists, along
> > with some linguistic convention for expressing it, in all languages,
> > whether or not via an active verb.
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> > I wonder if Trocme-Fabre thinks concepts of existence, state, and
> > location are lacking among peoples whose languages lack a verb
> > equivalent to "to be".
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> What languages lack a verb "to be"?
Re: "Have" as perfective auxilliary in various languages ... Germanic and Romance languages, for example, has occasionally extended ... means by "periphrastic resultative/perfect".... point is to look at the result of the verb....German, amongst others. ... (sci.lang)
Re: Chez Watt Re: Common ancestor between man and ape ... If German word order is for English used, ...languages even or Sanskrit or the languages descended from it. ... There is one verb form for "It ... Some people proposed English prime which is English shorn of the verb ... (talk.origins)
Re: Chez Watt Re: Common ancestor between man and ape ... If German word order is for English used, ...languages even or Sanskrit or the languages descended from it. ... There is one verb form for "It ... Many languages lack a copular verb 'to be'. ... (talk.origins)
Re: Prepositions and postpositions in IE languages ... > and in the past couple of months, for kicks, I've been teaching myself> one of the eastern-most IE languages. ... > One difference about which I am curious is Hindi's use of postpositions> where English uses prepositions.... postpositions, objects precede verbs, and adjectives precede nouns.... The meaning of the compounded verb is usually modified by the addition of the preposition in some way consistent with the meaning of the preposition itself. ... (sci.lang)
Re: Academic/scientific journals in Esperanto? ... > Ar an dara lá déag de mí Feabhra, scríobh Manuel M. Campagna: ... of forms of accusative in each of these languages.... >> complex and irregular verb tables such as exist in latin, Greek, Romance ... > The verb tables of English are sufficiently irregular that one would have to ... (sci.lang)
