Thrice Xandvii wrote: ↑02 Jan 2018 10:12
Does anyone know of a resource that lists all of the verbs for a language with a closed class of verbs? I've seen references to several languages that do indeed have a closed class of verbs, but as of yet, I haven't been able to find a list of those verbs. While not indispensable, it'd be nice to see an example of just how many (and what variety) of verbs exist in these types of languages.
If you know the names of several such languages -- or, maybe even, just one -- wouldn't you be able to find such a reference by googling (or something)?
Some Oceanic or Australian language's only lexical(?*) verbs are "come" and "go" and "say".
It was discussed either here or on the ZBB or on Vreleksa.
You might search for posts made by me that contain "come" and "go" and "say" and "stay".
(That approach won't find such a discussion here on the CBB. The post I remember making must have been on one of those other phpBBoards.)
Does Korean have a closed class of lexical(?*) verbs? If so, it might be a biggish class; it might be up to 33% of all verbs (the other 67% being "lightverb+contentword" combinations.)
Some natlanguage discussed either here or on the ZBB or on Vreleksa has just 12 lexical(?*) verbs.
Edit:
See: (I don't guarantee that each of these has what you want, but I bet at least one does):
this book
this pdf
this book
Edit: *{edit2}I may have used the wrong word here. I mean single words that act, morphosyntactically, like we expect "verbs" to act. They aren't verbal auxiliary-words (I think), but they may be light verbs.{/edit2}