Re: Aspect revisited
| From: | Mathias M. Lassailly <lassailly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 16, 1998, 18:24 |
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Charles wrote :
[snip]
> I don't quite understand this yet, but suspect
> that tense and aspect are lurking everywhere.
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Everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere. In bud and flower, birth, abortion and death, desire,
wish and regret. In 'the' also. And in prepositions as in *towards an optimal
auxlang*. Prepositions are predicates like verbs and nouns anyway and they are
so considered by Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, etc. So they can have aspect
too.
Mathias
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