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Re: Noun tense

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Monday, July 22, 2002, 20:45
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:22, Tim May wrote:

> This, it seems to me, is perfectly reasonable, but is a matter of > marking verb tense on nouns, rather than of noun tense in the sense > that I understand the term. In your example, "The catll catch the > mousll.", the -ll marker refers to the tense of the catching, not of > the cat and the mouse. The future tense of "cat" would mean "that > which will be a cat". Granted, a language with such a feature might > well use future tense of cat and mouse in this case, as the event is > in the future, but I don't see any evidence that English is developing > such a system.
Yes, I'm sorry, it's all my fault in the first place. I misunderstood something in my tiredness... I need to sleep more. Tristan.