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Re: Person marking on nouns?

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, February 23, 2004, 20:08
Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> Estel Telcontar wrote: > > Anyone know ov eny langwages, real or con, that do enything like this? > > Well, some languages use verbal person markings on nouns to indicate > *possession*
Meghean does this, if you want to analyze it that way: lear "to sing" selear "I sang" tuch "book" sethuch "my book" (Well, that's not really an unmarked past tense. I just figure that the preterite is the English tense/aspect* closest to the Meghean imperfect.) * You know you're in trouble when the phrase "English tense/aspect" turns up! Andreas