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Re: CHAT: relative tense

From:Boudewijn Rempt <brt@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 23, 1999, 9:19
> Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...>
> To the biggest extent possible! Euskara (Basque) > has mandatory subjectand object agreement for > transitive verbs, mandatory subject agreement for > intransitive verbs, but also indirect object (dative) > agreement, that can occur on both kinds of verbs, > as it can be used for politeness to refer to the hearer, > if he is not already part of the sentence. As far as I > know, that indirect object agreement is optional, used > only for politeness or when the indirect object would > be a pronoun.
I knew I should have taken that Basque class at university!