Re: Verb terminology question
| From: | Elliott Lash <al260@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 2, 2000, 2:27 |
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In a message dated 12/1/00 4:01:59 AM Pacific Standard Time,
cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG writes:
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> > My language has got three tenses (past, present, and future), each of
which
> > is supplied with four aspects. Those are: simple/progressive, indefinite,
> > perfect, and... what? What is the correct term for an aspect indicating
an
> > event which is about to or has yet to take place?
>
> There's no one term, we've had discussions on this before. I use
> "prospective", but others have used "preperfective" or others that I
> can't remember at the moment.
In Lojban it is called the "inchoative".
Doesn't inchoactive mean the action is in the process of beginning, not
about to begin?
Elliott