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

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, dirk elzinga wrote:

> In "An American Indian Model of the Universe" Benjamin Whorf claims
> that the most salient categorization in Hopi thought is between
> "manifesting" and "manifested". Some more linguisticky terms might be
> "potential" and "realized"; your "contemplative" seems to match
> reasonably well with Whorf's "manifesting" category. He also speaks of
> the inceptive as the grammatical marker for events which emerge from
> the realm of the potential to the realm of the realized; your
> progressive might fill that role.
[snip]
Gosh, I really need to read some Whorf someday.  Thank you very much!
(And now I feel better about meep's putative quirkiness.)  I think I'll
try potential.

YHL, grateful