Re: Noun tense was Re: bac . . . some info

le mar 23-07-2002 à 09:46, Ray Brown a écrit :

> > But I'm pretty sure that what you meant was something more systematic.
>
> You're right.  I meant something more like this.  Supposing Latin had this
> feature
> (which it did not), then we might get something like this:
>
> domus - [present] the/a house
> domibas - [imperfect] a building that used to be  house but is now used
> for some other purpose
> domiturus - [future] a structure that will be a house
> domivius - [perfect/preterite] a structure that was once a house, but is
> now rubble
> domiveras - [pluperfect] something that had once been a house, but has
> long disappeared (tho
>    archaeology might discover something about it)
>
> [I'm assuming -s as nom. sing. endings, *domibas, domibantis [gen]   :)
> ]
Ok, so I guess the examples from nawatl are near to this, but it would
be interesting to get examples from a lang with a true noun/verb
opposition (which is not the case of nawatl).