Re: Re : Re: Creole vs. Pidgin
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Saturday, July 24, 1999, 23:59 |
"From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html" wrote:
> i mean the first, saying latin tagging is not consitent. it's no tense, it's
> all
> aspective, that is, aspect within the definition of the verb before
> aspectivation
> of the sentence.
So, what you're saying is that the conjugation the verb is placed in has
an actual aspectual meaning? That, for instance, -are verbs have an
inherent aspectual sense? If so, what are the meanings of the
conjugations?
--
"[H]e axed after eggys: And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not
speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue
hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
William Caxton
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