Re: Tense marked on nouns
| From: | Paul Roser <pkroser@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 3, 2004, 16:14 |
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:28:11 +0100, Peter Bleackley
<Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:
>Is there any language where tense is marked on a noun rather than the verb?
>It seems that English is heading towards tense being marked on the subject,
>but is the process complete in any language?
>
>Pete
There are a number of languages (including Tariana, Somali, and Salish)
that mark tense on the noun or noun phrase, though I don't think any have
nominal marking to the exclusion of verbal marking.
Here are a couple of links to pdf's that address nominal marking in detail:
three by Nordlinger & Sadler -
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~louisa/newpapers/snlfg01.pdf
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/LFG/5/lfg00nordlinger-sadler.pdf
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~louisa/newpapers/nov18lge-revised.pdf
and two by Lecarme -
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Lecarme/EV-article-final.pdf
http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Lecarme/TAarticle.pdf
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