Re: I'm back!! with a question..........
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 9, 2004, 23:37 |
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In a message dated 2004:04:09 11:22:40 AM, valoczy@VCN.BC.CA writes:
>I'm back after a lengthy absence......
:) Good to see ya back here.
>and I'm working on something extremely implausible and ridiculous :D
ruh roh
>[...] ..and I want the most obnoxiously complex verb system as I can
>manage. Any natlang have something like, dubitative past future ? (I doubt
>he will have been)
Hmmm, maybe some pidgins and creoles have similar serial constructions,
but nothing AFAIK like dubitative past future ::head spinning just thinkin'
that::.
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