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Re: Tense and aspect

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Friday, September 7, 2007, 12:57
In a message dated 9/7/2007 1:00:37 AM Central Daylight Time,
rakko@CHARTER.NET writes:


> I find that aspect and tense are hard to pin down in my conlangs. Is > there a good tutorial on tense and aspect on the web anywhere? Come > to think of it, what books would people recommend? I know of the ones > by Comrie. > > What I'd like is something to explain how different languages handle > tenses and aspects -- what sorts of distinctions they make and what > things they collapse together. >
I found Chapter 15.0 of Rick Morneau's "Lexical Semantics" to be very helpful regarding tense and aspect. http://www.eskimo.com/~ram/lexical_semantics.html stevo </HTML>

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