Functional shift in other languages

[john]

What exactly is he referring to? Could you give a few examples?


John 

On 14.06.2014 02:10, Angus Grieve-Smith wrote: 

> 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?