<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Why do we think that <i>bahasa</i> and <i>bobapo</i>, in Galela, are nouns?<div>Based on the evidence, they're not.</div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">(Not saying that they're verbs, just that, if nouns are "things that don't behave like verbs", as is implied in the question, then <i style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">bahasa</i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"> and </span><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">bobapo</i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"> aren't nouns, in Galela.</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Mark</font></span></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 01:10, Joo, Ian <<a href="mailto:joo@shh.mpg.de">joo@shh.mpg.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_1658811129734446647__olk_signature"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif">Dear all,</span></a><span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif">In Galela (West Papuan), nouns can be inflected like verbs, as illustrated below:</span></span><span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif">I would like to know if this is a cross-linguistically common phenomenon, and if so, what other languages
 show similar patterns.<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif">From Hong Kong,<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif">Ian</span></span><span></span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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