Re: CHAT: Re : Re: Tlvn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 15/09/99 10:43:54  , Ed a =E9crit :

> Incidentally, Langacker distinguishes two types of process, which he
>  calls "perfective" and "imperfective," which are similar to but not
>  identical with the concept of "active" and "stative."  Perfective
>  processes, like count nouns, are structured, individualized, and
>  distinguishable,=20
(a) retrospective pattern :
"i break the pot"
"i cut down the tree"
you go back from resultative pattern of process.
chronoexperience is :
broken <------ break
(cut) down <----- cut

while imperfective processes, like mass nouns, are
>  indefinitely divisible without loss of structure.
(b) unaspective pattern :
i jump from 3rd floor
i cut the tree

the process is itself a pattern:
no chronoexperience (outside process) :
jump ------ jump
cut ------- cut
red ----- red

but that's hardly true in context :

"he jumped without parachute"
"cut wood" / "cut scar"
"i drink too much"
"he lies down defenceless"

there is always some in(ter)ference of a well known
continuum. ask slavs.

mathias