Re: Noun-verb agreement

>I have a question: how do nouns agree with verbs, besides
>the usual stuff (person and number)? Do you know of langs
>that use different pronouns for different kinds of verbs?
>Because I've discovered, to my dismay, that Nolt Lethris,
>the Old Tongue (ancestor of Drasel=E9q) seems to have this
>kind of agreement; pronouns (maybe clitic ones, but indeed
>free at some point) that include a consonant, as an affix or
>infix, which varies according to the verb. These pronouns
>are also marked for tense, I guess like Teonaht does, and
>in later history their position becomes fixed (postverbal)
>and even later they merge with the verb. For example:
>
>        ndar=E1s tuyerhe        (>> modern _drast=FCer_)
>        cross  2p.PST
>        'you crossed'
>
>The past tense is here marked by the preffix <-uy->; _t-erhe_
>is the pronoun root. But if the verb is of another declension:
>
>        tese buyerhe    (>> modern _tesb=FCer_)
>        lie  2p.PST
>        'you lied'
>
>Here the pronoun root is _b-erhe_.
Since they are marked for tense, and vary with the verb, perhaps
"tuyerhe" and "buyerhe" are not pronouns at all, but auxiliaries!
Just a thought...

Matt.