Re: Lahabic Aspects and Tenses

I had to rush away for someone more urgent. Feel free to critique the
system. Are there too many conjugations (asks the man with 33 prefixes)? Too
few? Do you see a difficulty that I don't? I will cover the persons of the
verb in a following e-mail. I don't know what I should do about the passive,
if anything.
>The primary distinction in Early Lahabic is a trivalent opposition of
>aorist, perfect, and imperfect (more Ancient Greek influence; secondarily,
>an oppoisition of tense in non-future, future, and inceptive; thirdly, an
>opposition of realis and irrealis, and I'm not sure the passive exists
>anymore outside derivational forms.
>Examples:
>tyaien- see
>Realis conjugations are formed from ROOT+ -ejm-
>Non-future
>tyaieneima'z (aor)       I glance(d)
>tyaieneimoz  (impfv)     I see/saw/look(ed) at/ am seeing/am looking at
>tyaieneimaz  (pfv)       I have seen/looked/examined
>Future
>tyaieneimi'z (aor)       I will see (once or fleetingly)
>tyaieneimez  (impfv)     I will see for a period of time
>tyaieneimiz  (pfv)       I shall see, intend to see with an objective
>Inceptive
>tyaieneimu'z (aor)       I begin to see suddenly
>tyaieneimoz  (impfv)     I begin to see for a period of time
>tyaieneimuz  (pfv)       I begin to see for a purpose, to examine
>Realis Infinitives are formed from ROOT+ejm+so: -> ejso:
>Irrealis Infinitive are formed from ROOT+ej+so: -> ejso:
>Infitives
>tyaienaiso'  (aor non-fut/pfv non-fut)
>tyaienoiso' (impfv non-fut/impfv incept)
>tyaienu'eiso' (aor incept)
>tyaienueiso' (pfv incept)
>tyaieni'eiso' (aor fut)
>tyaieneiso' (impfv fut)
>tyaienieiso' (pfv fut)
>Irrealis conjugations are formed from ROOT + ej -
>tyaieneia'n (aor)       I see
>tyaieneima'n (aor)       I see
>tyaieneima'n (aor)       I see
>tyaieneima'n (aor)       I see
>Imperative/jussive forms are identical to the irrealis future second and
>thid forms.
>
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