Re: time distinctions

> From: H. S. Teoh
>
> But OTOH, my verbs *do* have an aspect called the "initiative", which
> indicates the beginning of an event/action (as opposed to the progressive,
> denoting incompleteness, or the perfective, which denotes the complete,
> entire event). Maybe I can make an imperative from this by using a
> second-person pronoun and a future temporal noun -- something along the
> lines of "You will begin to write the letter!" ("begin to write" = verb in
> initiative aspect).
This is commonly called the inchoative or ingressive aspect.  In amman iar
this is not explicitly marked, but is implied in the perfective form of
stative verbs.

David

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