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Re: Noun tense

From:julien eychenne <eychenne.j@...>
Date:Monday, July 22, 2002, 15:46
le lun 22-07-2002 à 16:55, Peter Clark a écrit :
> On Monday 22 July 2002 04:40, Tristan McLeay wrote: > > English contractions are showing the possibility of developing into a > noun-tense system, just as soon as we stop analysing them as noun+auxiliary. > Consider:
Well, I don't get it. I am wondering how we could consider pronoun + auxiliary as tensed nouns, even if I try hard. Tensed nouns are supposed to bear in themselves a tense value, such as nawatl |in tlânamaka-k| is 'the one who sold' > "the seller". But pronouns in that case don't bear this value intrinsecally (we don't have |I'll| = *"future me" or something like that) but it just supports the value of the tensed verb. So it seems that these are two different things. Julien.

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