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It has been said here, that a useful criteria for an IAL might be: > 4. If you do not know a word and do not know its > morphemes, can you tell if it is an adjective, a > noun, or a verb? Can you tell if it is a compound > word? " Do most people in the world even know what an adjective, noun and " verb are? These are terms used primarily from our model of " language. Some languages do not have a class of "adjectives" as " such, but instead use stative verbs or genitive noun constructions. I do not agree with the latter point. One of the major items of unity in the world language picture is that the Indo-European Language group is so vast. And the features mentioned are still common in that group. Moreover, I have seen no evidence that these "parts- of speech" present any problem at all to Chinese learners. Semitic is IMO not all that removed either, nor IMO Indonesian or others. So I see no reason to fear identifying "nouns," "verbs," "prepositions/ postpositions" and even "adjectives," though the latter might be fused with adverbs. If people do not know the grammatical term, that is trivial. Even two-year olds can have the feel for such things. That is what is important. I do, however, agree with the comment below. Regards, Leo J. Moser Sent via: [log in to unmask] --- On Thu 10/25, Antonielly Garcia Rodrigues < [log in to unmask] > wrote: From: Antonielly Garcia Rodrigues [mailto: [log in to unmask]] |