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Re: CHAT: relative tense

From:Orjan Johansen <oerjan@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 23, 1999, 18:15
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> >>Boudewijn Rempt <brt@...> wrote: > >...... > >>> agreement systems. Does anyone know of a conlang that has object ag=
reement
> >>> incorporated into the verb?
[snipalot]
> That makes me think of a language where noun-verb agreement > would be used only to mark definiteness ("the"). I like this idea. Do > any of you already did it ?
Indeed, Hungarian does exactly that for its object agreement. The subject agreement is of the usual person/number type. Egy k=F6nyvet olvasok - I read a book A k=F6nyvet olvasom - I read the book Egy k=F6nyvet olvas - He/she/it reads a book A k=F6nyvet olvassa - He/she/it reads the book (not sure about the verb=20 suffix.) And then there is the stray suffix -lak/-lek: Olvaslak - I read you :-) Greetings, =D8rjan.