 CalifJim wrote: |
Re: emotionally involved
Especially in Bailey's case, when it comes to the "subjunctive". I
think he had some sort of trauma involving the subjunctive earlier in
his life, and it's affected him adversely forever.
Strange that in modern spoken French the subjunctive is essentially
tenseless (does not follow the sequence of tenses 'rules' that Bailey
requires of a 'true' subjunctive), but Bailey never mentions this fact
(far as I remember), even though he draws French-English connections in
at other points in his writing.
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I think he makes a good point: it behaves like an infinitive in that it
doesn't take do-support. OTOH, the French subjunctive is clearly finite
and has two inflected tenses.