Matt Pearson <pearson@...> writes:
> Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>
> > J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...> writes:
[snippage]
> > > Ne Tsion kaieha
> > > the-Abs John-Abs kill-Stat
> > > "John is (in a state of having been) killed"
> >
> > Jan`n dag`n.
> > John-OBJ kill-PRES
>
> If "Jan'n dag'n" means "John is killed/dead", how do you express "John is being
> > killed (right now)"?
Oops, I screwed this up! The verb must of course be in the past tense!
(There is certainly a way in Nur-ellen to distinguish the different
aspects, but I haven't decided on that yet.)
"John is being killed (right now)" is indeed expressed by the
present-tense example I gave:
Jan`n dag`n.
John-OBJ kill-PRES
Jörg.