Re: "Anticipatory" Tense

At 01:57 PM 3/4/02 -0600, William Annis wrote:
>  >From: kam@CARROT.CLARA.NET
>  >
>  >But in the same vein, what about an "almost" aspect, e.g. "I almost fell
>  >over, and you almost laughed out loud". Or "I nearly finished reading that
>  >book" (but I never managed the last few pages).
>
>         Vaior makes a number of distinctions in this regard, via
>affixes:
>
>      to almost, nearly (finish) X: -dim-
>      to stop just before finishing X: -rdim-
>      to just begin to X: -ven-
>      to stop just after beginning X: -rven-
    Rav Zarruvo has something similar, but it's related more to
perfect/imperfect than to tense or aspect.  The suffix -dho is used for
perfect; -ddarr for something nearing completion, or whose completion is in
question; and -zobv for something being attempted and given up on.

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