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There is no particular distinction between nominal and verbal elements or lexical bases as we shall call them. Nomina can be used as predicates and vice versa although the correlation in meaning isn't always instantly clear. E.g. ''npš'' ‘to be alive’ or ‘life’ as a transparent example and ''qt'' ‘to take’ or ‘hand’ as a less transparent example. | There is no particular distinction between nominal and verbal elements or lexical bases as we shall call them. Nomina can be used as predicates and vice versa although the correlation in meaning isn't always instantly clear. E.g. ''npš'' ‘to be alive’ or ‘life’ as a transparent example and ''qt'' ‘to take’ or ‘hand’ as a less transparent example. | ||
====Nominalisation strategies==== | ====Nominalisation strategies==== | ||
One basic way of creating nouns (insofar as a noun class separate from predicates can be even postulated) seem to be formed with the base vowel ''*a'' as in the templatic vowel patterns '''-a-''', '''a-a''', usw. e.g. Egyp. rmṯ /raːmac/ ‘man’, sn /san/ ‘brother’. | |||
====Verbalisation strategies==== | ====Verbalisation strategies==== | ||