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Conlangery #120: Adjectives

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Nouns and Adjectives

There are two, well, there are three walls chapters on adjectives. I've never found that question particularly interesting and I almost never have a noun like adjectives in my language. So it's not a possibility for me anyway. The chapter on how predicates are encoded is interesting. We've sort of touched on this a little bit. Can the adjective become a verb in itself? Right. Is it need a copula? What kinds of things can you do? And then four languages with nounlike adjectives, can they be used alone as a noun? In English you can say a little hoe. Where in English we have to use a prop noun one to hold that up

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