Finite Noun Phrases
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چکیده
A common view of finiteness, particularly prevalent in the transformational grammar traditions, associates it with the marking of tense/aspect/mood and subject agreement on verbs. However, since nominal predicates as well as verbal predicates may be temporally located (e.g. ex-soldier, former friend, future President), there is no reason in principle why nominal predicates might not bear TAM marking also. Indeed, in a wide range of languages crosslinguistically, nominals are marked for tense which serves to temporally locate the nominal predicate itself, independently of the temporal specification of any governing (verbal) predicate. Drawing on data from a number of genetically and areally diverse languages, this paper explores many aspects of the phenomenon of non-propositional nominal TAM marking and its implications for the notion of finiteness.
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