Re: Back to the Future (was: I'm back, sort of)
| From: | Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 13:33 |
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At 07:42 AM 9/24/03 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Peter Bleackley wrote:
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> > Future English will have a nominative case of nouns and pronouns which is
> > marked for tense.
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>I think better: English may have mood/aspect particles which incorporate
>the person and number and/or cliticise onto the noun. (I think also it
>might be pro-drop: there are certainly times even without redundency when
>pronouns can be skipped.)
My mother frequently skips her subject pronouns in written notes. Always
has. (See, I just dropped a subject pronoun.) It drives my husband
slightly nuts, but I'm used to it.
Isidora
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