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Re: Two part verbs (Why They Shouldn't Make Me Wait)

From:Jonathan Knibb <jonathan_knibb@...>
Date:Thursday, December 7, 2006, 9:19
Mia Soderquist wrote:
>While sitting in a waiting room recently, I scribbled out a system of
verbs
>where every verb has two parts-- an auxiliary that carries >tense/aspect/mode/person/number, and then the part that carries the >content.
Two thoughts: (1) I have a very vague memory that Hindi does something like this. Anybody? (2) This seems to be on the brink of turning into a single-open-class language, if the content verbs behave identically to other content words in terms of syntax (and why shouldn't they?). Jonathan. ==