Re: Tense on Nouns

>>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:

I-(present)-(agent) type-(action) email-(present)-(direct object).

And potentially, I guess you could have different tenses for different
nouns in the sentence.

I-(present)-(agent) see-(action) him-(past)-(direct object).

And maybe with the last example, also have a thing denoting on the
noun the day it was seen, like him-(past)-(yesterday)-(direct object).

I assume this has been done/is done somewhere and would like
suggestions for further examples of implementation.

Peace and Light,
B<<

Hi there! This is a fascinating idea, and I'm toying with it. Several
natlangs actually have tense on the nouns. If you'd like to know how they
work in natlangs, there's a language miniature on it:

http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/miniatures/nountense.htm

There used to be a PDF file out there that explained it a little more
in-depth, but the page seems to have disappeared. Ah well.
Good luck with this, should you decide to do it!

The Aquamarine Demon

"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell



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