Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Do Support & Adjectives And Verbs
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| Author: | dave gough |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email |
| Query: |
DO SUPPORT, ADJECTIVES AND VERBS 1. ADJECTIVES and VERBS mcgee@netactive.co.za I would like to find out about languages that show similar morphology for adjectives and verbs where these are otherwise distinct classes. I'm particularly - but not exclusively - interested in any cases of similar morphology for stative verbs and adjectives. BORROWED ADJECTIVES mcgee@netactive.co.za Are there languages that treat adjectives that are either code mixed items or borrowings differently from native adjectives? e.g. would 'fine' or 'sure' - as in 'I am fine', 'He is not sure' - have the same treatment in a language that is not English as the other 'native' adjectives? DO SUPPORT in negatives mcgee@netactive.co.za What other languages, besides English, have the equivalent of do support in the formation of negatives? e.g. I saw the man I did not see the man. Wha is the equivalent that is used? Please note that all these queries relate to a general area of research I am presently involved in. I have previously asked a couple of similar questions which I don't think were very clearly put. Will post a summary of everything to this query. Dave Gough Department of Linguistics University of Western Cape Bellville 7535 South Africa Tel +27 21 959 2978 (work) Fax +27 21 959 2420 mcgee@netactive.co.za OR dgough@uwc.ac.za http://homepages.go.com/~prof_gough/index.html |
