Re: Pronouns Marked for Tense/Aspect/Mood
| From: | Peter Clark <peter-clark@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 1, 2003, 13:08 |
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On Wednesday 30 April 2003 10:04 pm, Garth Wallace wrote:
> Peter Clark wrote:
> > although
> > the irrealis is restricted to the conditional or subjunctive;
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> Isn't this a tautology? From reading Palmer, it seems like "subjunctive"
> is almost synonymous with "irrealis" (in the sense of an inflection).
Well, in context, the language that Roger was talking about used the irrealis
form for the future as well. So my point was that Enamyn has both future
realis and future irrealis.
I wonder if there is any natlang that uses an irrealis form for all
references to the future. Makes sense from a certain point of view...
:Peter
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Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
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