Donna Jo Napoli Quotes

Creoles Tend To Express Variations In Time By Having A String Of Helping Verbs Rather Than By Having Complicated Word Formation Rules. In Other Words, They Are More Like English In This Respect Than Like A Language Such As Italian:
English: I Thought She Might Have Been Sleeping.
Italian: Pensavo Che Dormisse.
The Idea Of Potential (in The English "might"), Completed Or Whole Action (in The English "have"), And Stretched-out Activity (in The English "been") That Go With "sleeping" Are All Expressed In The Ending On The Italian Verb Dormisse. (Dorm Is The Root For "sleep"; Isse Is The Ending That Carries All The Meaning About The Time Frame.)

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