Nuns and verbs

[Frances Karttunen]

I would say that nouns in Nahuatl are those entities that take engage  
with nominal morphology and verbs are the ones that engage with  
verbal morphology.  There's probably a bit of overlap.

Andrews makes his every-word-a-sentence claim by resorting to "zero- 
morphemes" and not just a little bit but by a great whopping lot.

There are plenty of what Carochi called "adverbs" in Nahuatl, with  
all sorts of functions other than verbal or nominal.

On the other hand, I am fairly convinced that in older Nahuatl there  
was no distinct grammatical category of adjective. That probably  
changed through contact with Spanish.  Not that there has been  
obvious introduction of agreement between modifier and modified, but  
some deverbal forms now seem to act like predicate adjectives in a  
way they didn't originally.

Fran
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