Noun and Pronoun flexion in contemporary English
- From: Joachim Pense <snob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:49:52 +0200
We know English has only a handfull of verbal flexion forms. But in
modern English the tenses etc. lead to a conjugation (or declination?)
of the subject, as in
he'll go
Peter's going
we've done it
and so on.
Is there a name for this kind of flexion? Would it make sense to call
"he'll" a case of "he"?
Does something like that occur in many languages?
Joachim
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