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Re: unmarked tense/aspect

From:David Peterson <thatbluecat@...>
Date:Friday, March 5, 2004, 5:36
Estel wrote:

<<The language will distinguish past, present and future tense
It will distinguish at least imperfective, perfective and perfect
aspect; imperfective may be divided into progressive and habitual, but
I'm not yet sure.>>

You make a distinction between the perfect *and* the perfective?   What does
this mean?   And why no distinction between the imperfect and the
imperfective?

-David