Interesting, Johanna. Can you give a page number? On 6/13/2014 1:51 PM, Johanna Rubba wrote: > I’m looking at John MacWhorter’s book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, wherein he claims that functional shift/conversion/zero derivation does not occur in other languages. Anyone know of counterexamples? -- -Angus B. Grieve-Smith grvsmth at panix.com