Re: Person marking on nouns?

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