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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear LingTyp members,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Since Roland Hemmauer has already sent
a summary, it might be to late to add something to this discussion, but I would
like to point out that tense(not aspect, mood, etc.)-marking by affixes (not
clitics) on both non-predicate and predicate NPs and pronouns is a fairly
widespread phenomenon all over the world. The case of Guarani is well-described
in several monographs and articles. The same phenomenon is found in many
Amerindian languages, both in North- and South-America, besides Yukaghir,
Samoyed and other languages already mentioned by Elena and Florian. I should add
that in Hausa and other Chadic languages, tense-marking on pronouns is quite
regular. Let me quote an illustration from Comox, in which, like in other
Salishan languages, this a very frequent phenomenon: not only can
non-predicate NPs be tensed, like tala "money" (from dollar, incidentally), in
tala-elh (money-PAST) used as subject or object of a verb, but tensed non-verbal
predicates are common, as in</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>hégos-elh té'e (chief-PAST) this "this man was the
chief".</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> More data in C. Hagège, Le comox lhaamen de
Colombie britannique, présentation d'une langue amérindienne, Amérindia, Paris,
Association d'Ethnolinguistique Amérindienne, 1981, and in "Du concept à la
fonction en linguistique, ou la polarité vebo-nominale", La Linguistique,vol.
20, 2, 1984, 15-28.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best regards to all,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Claude.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Claude Hagège, Chaire de Théorie Linguistique,
Collège de France, Paris.</FONT></DIV>
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