Re: Pronouns Marked for Tense/Aspect/Mood

>The examples Palfreyman give all seem to involve the pronouns marked for
>the tense _of_the_verb_. That's certainly interesting
>in and of itself, but I'm more interested in finding out if any other
>natlang or conlangs act like Asha'ille in marking tenses of the pronoun
>itself.  (I am expecting some anadewisms, of course. :)
I seem to have missed the original post on this. Please pardon if I repeat
anything.

Okrand's Klingon does this for sentences like "I am ... " etc. as there is
no verb "to be". E.g.
- "I became Klingon"
- tlhIngon jIHchoHta'
- /kligon I-change-complete/

My Palu f'Dule simlarly has no verb "to be".
- I am Dula
- wi ha dula
- I (sj) dula.

- I will be Dula
- wit ha dula
- I-future (sj) dula

Palu f'Dule allows the tense suffixes on any noun or verb, but the meaning
isn't exactly the same across all sentences.
- Nafa ha xato ho wh'wi cofatdi. E.g.
- /mother (sj) book (oj) to-me gives-future-she/
- Nafat ha xato ho wh'wi cofadi
- /mother-future (sj) book (oj) to-me give-she/







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