Information / nouns vs. verbs

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I must say I have never seen anything likr thathipi 'their house',
more usually things like wathi el 'in the (where) I live', or John thi
ekta 'to (where) John lives'.  Existence of thathipi would however be
quite strong evidence
Bruce
On 13 Dec 2002, at 7:36, Pamela Munro wrote:

> The verbiness of certain American Indian languages is a topic I've long
> thought about -- it's absolutely true that in some languages there
> simply are more verbs than in others.

> However, unless I am mistaken there are certainly a few (!) tests for
> nominal vs. verbal status in Lakhota. One of these, I'd say, would be
> occurrence with the possessive prefixes tha- etc. Of course not all
> things that (I'd say) were nouns do occur with these, but my belief is
> that anything that does occur with them is (in that usage) not a verb.
> And thathípi is the possessed form of 'house' that I've recorded.
>
> Pam
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Dr. Bruce Ingham
Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies
SOAS