Re: Interesting way of expressing tense/aspect distinctions.

Staving Philippe Caquant:
>Won't work, I'm afraid. How would you express things
>like:
>- I was making bubbles in my bath when the phone rang.
>- I've read this book over # I've been reading this
>book; I started reading this book long ago (and I
>haven't finished it yet)
>- not specified past (or future) # not specified at
>all (intemporal: Horse is Man's friend, a rose is a
>rose)
>- he did it every day since 1945 until yesterday
>- whenever you will read this, I'll be dead [I hope
>not]
Some of them would need further adverbial qualification, but they do in
English anyway. I think the basic system is workable, especially if you
allow a null marker for unspecified.

Pete
(off on holiday for a week)