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Finiteness
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1. Definition Just looking at a language like English, one easily gets the impression that “tensed” equals “finite” and one may wonder why we actually need two separate notions. However, taking a wider perspective, it becomes clear that tense and finiteness are different after all: not only do some languages (like Latin) have tensed infinitives, in others, such as Dravidian, finiteness is expressed through Mood rather than Tense (Amritavalli 2014), to give just two examples of the dissociation. F…
Date:
1899-12-30
