Re: a verb aspect--what's it called?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 12, 2000, 2:23 |
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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...
"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".
Christophe.