Re: time distinctions
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 28, 2000, 18:26 |
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 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).
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.
The inceptive imperative gives a command great urgency:
tys.es.ay
cease.INC.IMP-s
"stop (it) right now!" - literally: "start ceasing".
Irina
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