Re: CHAT: relative tense

Boudewijn Rempt <brt@...> wrote:
>
> As an aside - I've just subscribed to the list after lurking on my wife's
> account for a while. My own primary conlang, Denden, has a metrical
distinction
> in tense, with four degrees in the past and two into the future. On the other
> hand, the languages I'm a specialist in (Sino-Tibetan languages of the
> Himalaya), don't have much of a tense distinction - though extremely
complicated
> agreement systems. Does anyone know of a conlang that has object agreement
> incorporated into the verb?
>
It depends on what you mean by incorporated. My conlang
Ciravesu uses pronominal prefixes for noun phrases in the
nominative, the accusative, and even some other cases. Though
these are optional, it's common that at least the subject
and the object of a longish sentence are referenced in the
verb. But it's not compulsory.

As for natlangs, Basque does something like that too --
but I don't know to what extent.


--Pablo Flores

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