Dear Roland Hemmauer, I'm not sure this adds much to the feedback you've been getting from lingtypists; at any rate, non-nominal tense is also covered in items Nos 43 and 45 and no-tense in item No. 11 of Das grammatische Raritaetenkabinett at http://ling.uni-konstanz.de:591/universals/introrara.html Frans Plank