Conlang/Advanced/Grammar/Noun-Verb distinction
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Although there are no natlangs known to lack the noun verb distinction, nor do I know of any conlang, it is still a theoretical possibility for a language to lack such a distinction.
One possible method of destroying the distinction would to create a verb class similar to the present participle, that would be able to act as a modifier to another verb that would essentially create a long chain of complicated verbs referencing a noun, but have the noun never appear, instead substituting a verb participle as the patient/actor. One consequence of this would be that the language would also lack adjectives, them having been completely replaced by adverbs.
A possible example could be, although this is not very thought out:
- humaningly sitting falls from blocking
- ~~Be.human+ADV to.sit+SUBSTANTIATIVE-MOOD to.fall+PRES from to.block+SUBSTANTIATIVE-MOOD
this only kind of blurs the boundary, any one with more ideas, putt'em up!
