Re: Noun tense

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:55:11 -0500 Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>
writes:
> On Monday 22 July 2002 04:40, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> I'll have to
> listen more carefully. On the other hand, a contraction of "it had"
> to "it'd" sounds correct enough when I say "It'd been possible"
quickly.

>         :Peter
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Leaving out the boring English-Dialects issue of how i pronounce the
examples you gave differently, to me "it'd" sounds perfectly fine to
me... as does affixing |'re| /r=/, |'ve| /@v/ and |'ll| /l=/ to
non-pronouns, such as "the table'll fall if you lean on it too hard" or
"the rabbits've been jumping a lot".

Actually, my conlang Rokbeiglamki does the same as English, affixing the
tense to the pronoun, except that's its only way of marking tense: IZ
"she" + A (present-immediate tense) + a verb such as FARIT "jump" =
IZA-FARIT "she is jumping".  IZA by itself can mean "she is [something]",
"she is [somewhere]", "she is going", "she is [doing]" depending on
context.  There are also other words that can have tense-vowels affixed
to them, for instance:
iltao = always
u-iltao (u=past) = always've (as in "i've always done that")
ii-iltao (ii=future) = always'll (as in "i'll always remember you")
taz = now
a-taz (a=present-immediate) = right now
oi-taz (oi=present-routine) = around now
paz = here
a-paz = right here
oi-paz = hereabouts


-Stephen (Steg)
"la."