Board Thread:Linguistics/@comment-8628539-20130805011328/@comment-17714964-20130907223657

Not sure if I should post, since this thread's been inactive for a month...

I suppose you could have a language without nouns if you had verbs like "to be a chair," conjugated verbs for person, and used a lot of dependent clauses. I know that some languages have clitics that function like objective pronouns, so you could maybe have a sentence that glossed something like "sat-I=it, be.chair-it," "I sat on it, it is a chair," instead of "I sat on the chair."

Off the top of my head, I think maybe I've heard of grammars that work like that, but I'm really not sure. I'm still pretty new to linguistics, con- or otherwise. :P