Re: time distinctions
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 29, 2000, 0:30 |
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On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 08:26:12PM +0200, Irina Rempt wrote:
[snip]
> So does Valdyan; not a progressive (uses simple present for that; the
> punctual aspect makes it explicitly non-progressive), but an
> inceptive aspect marked by -es-. It can mean the beginning of an
> action or an action about to happen.
Yeah! I like "inceptive". I'll adopt that for my grammar :-)
> The inceptive imperative gives a command great urgency:
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> tys.es.ay
> cease.INC.IMP-s
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> "stop (it) right now!" - literally: "start ceasing".
[snip]
Yeah, the inceptive aspect seems quite close to an imperative, since in
the second person it carries quite a lot of imperative tone: "You start
doing this now!" or "You start going to her house now!". I'll probably use
the inceptive plus perhaps a contracted word that may eventually become an
imperative marker in descendent conlangs.
T