Re: Noun and Pronoun flexion in contemporary English

Am 16 Jul 2006 01:00:28 -0700 schrieb mb:

Joachim Pense wrote:
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"?

Do you mean as in:

*he'll went?

???

*weve'll do it?


rather

we'll've done it

Does something like that occur in many languages?

Do you mean as in:

je suis allé > chuizallé > *chui vais aller?
ig bi gange > ibi ggange > *ibi werd gaa?

Yes, but I don't understand what you want to say with your starred
forms. Are they future projections of yours, or do you mean these
forms should occur if I were right, or anything else?

Joachim
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