Re: "Anticipatory" Tense
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 4, 2002, 19:39 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> Latin used -sc- to form new inchoative verbs, e.g.
> tremescere "to start trembling" (<< tremere "to tremble")
> obdormiscere "to fall asleep" (<< dormire "to sleep")
Hence Quine's lovely conword *nolitessituriesco* 'I am not
beginning to want to flutter hard'. (_Quiddities, s.v.
"Inflection").
> Ray.
> (back again at last :)
Welcome back!
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