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Re: Marking and Imperatives

From:Daniel Andreasson <noldo@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 23:42
Ed Heil wrote:

> The most common usages of a verb tend to be the least marked. For > indicative verbs, this is usually third singular and/or plural. > (English is weird in marking *only* this person/number combination.)
Is this true? Because this should imply that you gossip more than you brag! That is, you talk more about what he or she is doing rather than what I am doing. Maybe the world isn't so egocentric after all... Daniel Andreasson