From: Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Dec 24 1997 - 10:27:42 EST
At 11:10 AM 12/23/97 -0600, Ronald Ross wrote:
>Jonathan, one thing I would certainly change is the idea that the (subject)
>noun agrees with the verb. It is the verb that agrees with the subject.
Thanks, you put your finger on the problem I'm having, and that tells me
how to solve it.
>Nouns don't have person morphologically expressed, but they certainly
function
>as third persons, and therefore the verb would agree in the third person. In
>some languages, such as Spanish, subject nouns can in fact function as first
>and second persons when plural. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to
>discover that Greek allows this too, though I don't have any examples to
prove
>it.
Does anybody know if Greek acts this way?
>As for a btter way to say it, maybe like this:
>
>When a noun or pronoun is the subject, it is in the nominative case. The
verb
>agrees with it in person and number.
Thanks!
Jonathan
jonathan@texcel.no
Texcel Research
http://www.texcel.no
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