Re: OT: Latin subject-verb agreement
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 13, 2007, 0:37 |
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In a message dated 12/12/2007 2:05:47 PM Central Standard Time,
markjreed@MAIL.COM writes:
> In most such langs, nouns are inherently third-person. The closest
> you could get would be a noun in apposition to a pronomial subject,
> maybe?
>
>
> On 12/12/07, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@...>
> wrote:
> > Is it possible in Latin to have a 1st or 2nd person verb and a noun
> subject?
> > For example, is "Pueri sumus boni" (We boys are good) grammatical?
> >
> > stevo
> >
>
I know that Spanish can use a noun as a subject of a 1st person plural verb
(Los mexicanos somos... = We Mexicans are...), and I've just heard that Italian
can do this too. There is a discussion on the Klingon list about whether
it's possible in Klingon, too. Someone there asked about Latin.
stevo </HTML>
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