Re: Noun tense

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.