Re: a verb aspect--what's it called?

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:
> >
> > which is great in that it has a lot of neat examples (a number of which
> > I
> > stole for Chevraqis), but couldn't find anything that corresponds to
> > "contemplative" (I thought it might be inchoative, but it seems not).
> > Does anyone know of an existing name for this sort of aspect, or should
> > I
> > just stick with the ad hoc "contemplative"?
>
> Well, I'm late of 150 posts, so I suppose someone already answered this
> question, but if I can help...
Pardonnez-moi, monsieur...il y a trop d'e-mails!
(Apologies, too, for the bad French...but I couldn't resist.)

> "Contemplative" looks like a nice name for such an aspect. In fact, I wonder if
> I didn't already saw it used the same way somewhere else. But for the same
> aspect, there is the name "prospective", which I use in my conlang O (which
> happens to have exactly the same aspect) and which IIRC I saw in a grammar book
> or something like that... So maybe it's more "official".
Thanks!  Now I have several possible terms to choose from.  Prospective
sounds pretty good.  Decisions, decisions...<G>

YHL