[Lingtyp] Verb-like nominal inflection

[Mark Donohue]

Why do we think that *bahasa* and *bobapo*, in Galela, are nouns?
Based on the evidence, they're not.
(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 *bahasa* and
*bobapo* aren't nouns, in Galela.

-Mark

On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 01:10, Joo, Ian <joo at shh.mpg.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
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> In Galela (West Papuan), nouns can be inflected like verbs, as illustrated
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> I would like to know if this is a cross-linguistically common phenomenon,
> and if so, what other languages show similar patterns.
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> From Hong Kong,
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> Ian
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