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2) The future morpheme ''-(a)d'' seems to behave like aspectual suffixes like inchoative ''-(a)ń'' and causative ''-(a)r'' | 2) The future morpheme ''-(a)d'' seems to behave like aspectual suffixes like inchoative ''-(a)ń'' and causative ''-(a)r'' | ||
3) The attestation of a future preterite, i.e. ''-(a)d + -s'' | 3) The attestation of a future preterite, i.e. ''-(a)d + -s'': P.QI I 11 i 7-8: papina … -kid'''-d-es'''-il; P.QI I 7 ii 15-16: eisanenappa ńodou ńokinka istaurocildō olleirimen'''-d-is'''-a- | ||
P.QI I 11 i 7-8: papina … -kid'''-d-es'''-il | |||
P.QI I 7 ii 15-16: eisanenappa ńodou ńokinka istaurocildō olleirimen'''-d-is'''-a- | |||
Diachronic evidence: | Diachronic evidence: | ||
Revision as of 08:25, 2 April 2012
In ONG §3.9.6, Gerald Browne suggests that the future tense is a tense like the present, and the two preterite forms. This seems to be mistaken.
Synchronic evidence:
1) The paradigm is more "dirty" the other three
2) The future morpheme -(a)d seems to behave like aspectual suffixes like inchoative -(a)ń and causative -(a)r
3) The attestation of a future preterite, i.e. -(a)d + -s: P.QI I 11 i 7-8: papina … -kid-d-es-il; P.QI I 7 ii 15-16: eisanenappa ńodou ńokinka istaurocildō olleirimen-d-is-a-
Diachronic evidence:
1) In Bechhaus-Gerst 2011, she argues that the "Old Future" in Nobiin (formed with -d) has a mainly aspectual, not temporal function.
2) The development of "innovative" future tenses in modern Nubian languages, like Kunuz with prefix bi-, seems to point to the absence of a "proper" future tense in ON.
