Re: Interesting way of expressing tense/aspect distinctions.

--- Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>
wrote:
> I've thought of the following way of expressing
> tense and aspect. It seems
> a pretty interesting way of doing it, and might be
> something a loglanger
> might like, although I hope that it's not too
> loglangy to be found in a
> naturalistic language - perhaps somebody can find a
> real example.
>
> Basically, rather than being marked for tense and
> aspect in the usual way,
> the verb is marked for inception and termination.
> The inception marker
> (probably a prefix) indicates when the action
> begins, and the termination
> marker (probably a suffix) indicates when it ends.
> The possible values for
> each of them might be distant past, immediate past,
> present, immediate
> future and distant future, with the possibility of a
> null value for
> "unspecified". This all maps out much the same
> semantic space as tense and
> aspect, but divides it up in a slightly different
> way.
>
> Pete
Well, I'm unaware of anything similar in a natlang,
but I like it!  It is really interesting.  I might
like to use something like that in one of my alien
langs.

Adam


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