Re: Yemls Phonology (long)

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> It means that instead of marking absolute present, past or future, in subclauses
> present means simultaneity, past means anteriority and future means posteriority
> to the situation of the main clause.
Ah... then I guess I've been using the term wrongly.  In Obrenje,
relative tense means simultaneity, anteriority or posteriority with
respect to the timeframe established by the absolute tense.  For
example, in "he was going to do", the absolute tense is past, but the
relative tense is posteriority.  Similarly, in "he will have done", the
absolute tense is future, but the relative tense is anteriority.

As for that "Yemls" phonology, what are you talking about?  I seem to
have missed the original post.


-- Christian Thalmann