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Conlangery #42: Practicum — Getting Rid of Adjectives

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How to Get Rid of Adjectives

Mike: One of William's practicums that he suggested, and it's getting rid of adjectives. He says there are a number of possibilities for how that could be done. The first important distinction then is that I'm going to keep using this terminology was attribution or attributive, adjectives, and predicate or predication adjectives. So you might have a language that has no adjective in the sense that we're used to, but might have a tribute which is perfectly fine. Mike: Maybe it just seems to me that noun like really strongly noun like adjective things seem to be less common in highly noun-infecting languages such as English.

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