Borrowing of verbs vs. nouns? [from LINGUIST list]

[Dave Robertson]

Mike Cleven <ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM> wrote the following apt question:

>Has anyone noticed any rules or other observations concerning the
>formation of CJ compounds using mamook, chako, mahsh etc.?

The closest anyone's come to a thorough and systematic treatment of these matters may be Zvjezdana Vrzic in her 1999 NYU PhD thesis, or Henry Zenk in his.  It remains, however, for somebody to publish a study focused on the mechanisms at work in CJ compound verbs, i.e. a truly descriptive grammar of the Jargon.

-- Dave

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