Borrowing of verbs vs. nouns [fwd from Dell]

Alan H. Hartley ahartley at D.UMN.EDU
Wed Mar 13 02:32:43 UTC 2002


> English has many more nouns from French than verbs.

But what's the ratio of nouns to verbs in these languages? If there are
a lot more nouns, then it seems likely that there'd be a lot more nouns
borrowed.

Alan



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