tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 12 16:28:58 2007
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Re: Prefix and noun agreement
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Prefix and noun agreement
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:27:08 EST
In a message dated 12/12/2007 8:29:09 AM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> >I suspect that it works in most languages where the verb conjugation
> >can give an explicit "third person plural subject" mark to the sentence.
> >Are there any Latin scholars reading?
>
Latin word order is such that a noun with a first or second person verb would
be interpreted as a predicate nominative, rather than a subject, regardless
of position.
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