Re: Tense on Nouns

Den 17. feb. 2007 kl. 10.04 skrev Reilly Schlaier:

> what if the tense was marked on both noun and verb
> the noun's tense denoting wen and the verbs tense acting as a
> normal tense
> (that sounds weird in my head, but i hope you understand)
> so
> I(pres) to see(past) him(past)
> would mean "I saw the past version of him"
It seems to me that you don't need both of them, at least mostly.
Anyhow I think people who mark time on nouns get a different
perspective from those who mark it on verbs. Perhaps it gives them a
more continuous perspective. What we others do is to picture an event
before we relate to it. That picture of the event is pretty much
timeless, extracted from time. In the other point of view you have an
emphasis on the entity the event happens to, an entity which is not
timeless, but is subject to change, creation or annihilation any
time. Somehow I wonder what would have been the effect if Greek
marked tense on nouns in Plato's time...

LEF