Re: Noun tense
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 22, 2002, 19:14 |
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Quoting Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>:
> /Tejl/
Surely you would not disagree with a phonemic /D/?
> [Present Perfect]
> /ajv/
In my own pronunciation, I often drop the [v] entirely:
"I gotta go".
In general, I would disagree with the proposition that these
cliticized verb forms are evidence that English are likely
someday to mark tense on nouns. Evidence that they're still
clitics comes from grammatical constructions like the following:
"The Man raving wildly's been rather active lately."
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Thomas Wier "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n /
Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..."
University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought /
1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn"
Chicago, IL 60637 Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers
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