Timeline for Is a language possible without verbs or without nouns?
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| May 13 at 10:54 | comment | added | Riad | I just saw this link; academic.oup.com/book/26032/chapter-abstract/… | |
| Oct 11, 2023 at 1:12 | answer | added | CosmicGenis | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 10, 2023 at 21:48 | comment | converted from answer | Jamie S | How about music? Music might be considered a language without nouns and/or verbs, but it is difficult to say what a piece of music means, or if it even has meaning, and it's particularly difficult to translate whatever the meaning is into say, english without "losing a lot in the translation." | |
| Dec 27, 2021 at 5:45 | comment | added | Anixx | English has no verbs except to be. | |
| Sep 16, 2020 at 10:16 | history | edited | curiousdannii♦ |
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| May 30, 2019 at 5:06 | answer | added | user24704 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackLinguist/status/1115086936635576320 | ||
| Aug 18, 2017 at 19:18 | answer | added | user19661 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 18:55 | answer | added | Zach Rosen | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 13, 2017 at 12:04 | comment | added | EsperantoSpeaker1 | @Quidam: I've up-voted your (unintentional?) auto-antonym (as downvoting, except in extreme cases, isn't sporting). | |
| May 5, 2017 at 18:34 | vote | accept | Quidam | ||
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| May 5, 2017 at 18:04 | answer | added | user6726 | timeline score: 17 | |
| May 5, 2017 at 17:46 | comment | added | Yellow Sky | There many languages for which the European classification of words into parts of speech simply doesn't apply. Such languages have neither nouns nor verbs. Note, to answer you question we need to know what you mean by "nouns", "verbs", etc. If "verbs" are words that can be altered for person and tense, then all Turkish nouns are "verbs", they can be conjugated for tense and person. The Wolof personal pronouns will be "verbs" too, because in Wolof there's maa ngi 'I that is now', naa 'I that was', dinaa 'I that will be', and so on for every person. | |
| May 5, 2017 at 17:43 | history | edited | Quidam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 5, 2017 at 17:10 | history | asked | Quidam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |