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<p>Ian,</p>
<p>As stated, your query is probably too broad and needs to be
narrowed down somewhat. Off the top of my head I can think of
several examples where "nouns can be inflected like verbs", but
none of them are much like each other or like Galela.</p>
<p>1. In Hebrew, the present tense of the verb, historically a
participial form, agrees with its subject in number and gender
using precisely the same forms, e.g.<br>
<br>
Hayeladim oxlim<br>
DEF:child:PLM eat:PRS:PLM</p>
<p>where the PLM suffix is -im for both noun and verb.</p>
<p>2. In Indonesian, reduplication marks plurality on both nouns and
verbs (where for verbs it can be interpreted either as iterativity
or as marking the plurality of an associated argument).</p>
<p>3. In Roon (SHWNG, Austronesian), nouns and verbs are indexed for
person, number and animacy using the exact same markers, the only
difference being that for nouns, the index occurs on an enclitic
article =ya whereas for verbs it occurs on the verb stem itself,
e.g.<br>
<br>
Bunmuya mura<br>
woman:2DU:DEF 2DU:go<br>
'You two women are going'</p>
<p>where it's the same 2nd person dual prefix mu- marking both the
article -ya and the verb -ra. (Note that this is not a case of
agreement, as in the Hebrew above, because in Roon, the subject
and the verb don't have to agree.)</p>
<p>But you probably mean something more specific than this, I'm
guessing ...</p>
<p>David<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/07/2020 18:10, Joo, Ian wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_olk_signature"><span
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lang="EN-US">In Galela (West Papuan), nouns can be
inflected like verbs, as illustrated below:</span></span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_olk_signature"><span
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lang="EN-US">I would like to know if this is a
cross-linguistically common phenomenon, and if so, what
other languages show similar patterns.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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