Re: Noun tense
| From: | julien eychenne <eychenne.j@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 22, 2002, 15:46 |
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le lun 22-07-2002 à 16:55, Peter Clark a écrit :
> On Monday 22 July 2002 04:40, Tristan McLeay wrote:
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> 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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