Re: Tense on Nouns
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 17, 2007, 6:26 |
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On Feb 16, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Brian B wrote:
> I was reading the discussion on Time Travel and Grammar and came up
> with an idea that I thought I'd share/bounce off everyone: What if the
> tense was attached to the noun instead of the verb? So that it'd look
> something like this:
There is a lot of information available online; just google "noun
tense" and "nominal tense". Louisa Sadler and Rachel Nordlinger in
particular have written a lot about it.
I agree it's a really cool idea for a conlang. You could also mark
mood and aspect on nouns. For example, you could have a sentence
meaning "I'm looking for a friend", i.e. "I'm looking for someone who
would be a friend" as opposed to "I'm looking for a specific person
who actually is a friend" by putting "friend" in the irrealis or
conditional or subjunctive mood.