Re: Aspect revisited

Charles wrote :

Nik Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Okay, as I understand it, inceptive refers to begining, yes?  E.g., "he
> > began to run".  What is the opposite of this called?  That is, "he
> > stopped running".
>
> I don't know, but I have been finding this (etc) useful:
> http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/publish/komet/gen-um/node144.html
>
> It is based on an analysis of English, Dutch, and Italian,
> and very reminiscent (in parts) of NGL vector tense.
>
>
This is a good url to know, thanks Charles :)
I think it is also possible to draw that map of aspects within the vocabulary
like for extremal : to learn ---> to know; to go to ---> to reach. That's what
my language Tunu does for progressive. Aspect can also apply to the case tag.
Some of my languages also applied mood to the case tag. It's not like a
transfer of the verb's aspect and mood onto the case tag because the mood and
the aspect does not then apply to the verbal action or state but to the very
relation between the predicate and the argument tagged aside the verbal aspect.
In my languages Teonaht's volitional would be rendered by a 'desiderative
nominative' tag.

Mathias

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