Re: CHAT: relative tense

At 21:04 22/03/99 -0300, you wrote:
>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.
>
        To the biggest extent possible! Euskara (Basque) has mandatory subject and
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.

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