Re: Anti-telic?

'Anti-telic' sounds very much like 'eternal', which could obviously be used for 'platonic'
statements like "2+2=4" or "a square has four sides", but could conceivably be
used for things like "I am/was born in 1967" or "I am father of Edwin", both of
which statements arguably will be true forever and slighly more arguably have
been true forever. Or, more poetrically, "X and Y are soulmates". Or statements
about other worlds: "Sherlock Holmes is a detective". Or even "Achilles kills
Hector" (with tense in our world, not the Iliad's).

I'm sure(ish) I've read somewhere of an 'eternal' tense/aspect in some natlang,
but Comrie's _Tense_ and _Aspect_ do not list 'eternal' in the index.

> Sai Emrys wrote:
>  > On 7/11/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>  >
>  >> But can _anything_ continue indefinitely in a temporal universe?
>  >
>  > Hey mon, that's your belief system.
(1) Even in a worldview in which time is bounded, 'eternal' could be defined as
'coextensive with all time'.

(2) We can easily conceive of the eternal, so there is no reason why a human
language (whether con or nat) cannot have a tense/aspect for it.

--And.