Re: time distinctions
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 27, 2000, 20:47 |
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The Gray Wizard wrote:
> While I am aware that some Bantu languages do make these kinds of degree of
> remoteness distinctions, I was not aware of any one language that made all
> of these. Is such a language attested? Which one?
After searching long and hard for the source (an linguistics textbook),
I found it, the language is called ChiBemba:
Remote Past (before yesterday)
Removed Past (yesterday)
Near Past (earlier today)
Immediate Past (just happened)
Immediate Future (very soon)
Near Future (later today)
Removed Future (tomorrow)
Remote Future (after tomorrow)
No present is listed. Perhaps that's because present is marked by no
prefix?
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