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Re: Tense marked on nouns

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Friday, June 4, 2004, 6:18
From:    Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>
> 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?
I would not say that English is heading to tense marking on subjects. I would say that the forms on English are clitics, and see no reason to believe that they will not stay that way (unless a completely unrelated system arises). ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637