Re: Verb terminology question

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Matt McLauchlin tleisseiç:
> >
> > 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".

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