Esperanto has ontological word classes. They’re surprisingly elegant, too.
Having said that, I agree on your main point—natural languages just don’t do that.
Please explain. Currently I find this very unlikely given that the idea doesn’t seem to make much sense in the first place, and the fact that Esperanto is a naturally-evolved mess due to Zamenhof’s original description being vastly underspecified.
Esperanto has ontological word classes. They’re surprisingly elegant, too.
Having said that, I agree on your main point—natural languages just don’t do that.
Please explain. Currently I find this very unlikely given that the idea doesn’t seem to make much sense in the first place, and the fact that Esperanto is a naturally-evolved mess due to Zamenhof’s original description being vastly underspecified.