take several different past and future markers to express ideas such as "our old house (the one we no longer live in)", "the abandoned car", "what was once a bridge", "bride-to-be" or even "my ex-future-wife," or rather, "the woman who at one point was going to be my wife."

Related grammatical phenomena

Verbal clitics

Although verbal clitics such as -ll in English are attached to nouns and indicate TAM information, they are not really examples of nominal TAM because they are clitics

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