Re: Trolling for comments on recent webpage update

Daniel Seriff wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
> I just updated my webpages, adding a page all about the verb system in
> Mungayvd. I'd like to hear as many people's as possible comments about
> what else could or should be on that page. As usual, comments on the
> verb system itself would also be welcomed. This could be an on-list or
> off-list discussion; I don't care.
>
> The URL:
> http://members.tripod.com/microtonal/language/conlang/verbs.html
>
> If you want to poke around in the rest of my skimpy Mungayvd offerings,
> here's the language homepage:
> http://members.tripod.com/microtonal/language/
>
        I just looked at it. That's good, except that I wouldn't count
"continual action" with the others. "Abstractive", "Subjunctive" and
"Conditional" are better described as moods, only "continual action"
(call it simply "progressive") is really an aspect. Aspect describe the
relative time (whether the action is finished -perfect-, unfinished
-imperfect-, ongoing -progressive-, repeated -repetitive-, just begun
-inchoactive-, etc...), tense the absolute time (self-explanatory) and
mood the likeliness of the action, or its mandatoriness (must, can,
could, may, should, want, etc...). Moreover, in your language those
three moods are represented by infixes, whereas your progressive is
shown by a verb (by the way, how do you cut this example and what does
it mean?).

        Anyway, that's very interesting. Continue like that!

> Thanks!
>
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