Re: Voice, Mood, and Tense

On 23 Jun 99, at 14:30, Barry Garcia wrote:


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<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param><FontFamily><param>Arial</param>> Verbs are conjugated according to aspect (as my Tagalog

> teacher said it: completed, continuing, contemplated).

</color>Of course!  I've been wondering what the _-e"-_ tenses in Wenetaic
actually mean, and now I know!


I have a regular set of "quasidirectionals", which fit into all affixes,
and there was a nasty hole formed by "obscure" past and future.
The infix -e"- is usually translated in the grammar as "obscure", in
pairing with -u- "apparent", but they don't seem to readily fit any
notion of time.


The senses of both "archaic" and "legendary" are already taken
care of (the legendary future, is "prophetic", I guess), but _-e"-_
would otherwise have been a candidate for either.


I already have "compete" and "continuing" expressed via root
mutations.  "Contemplative" is a very worthy form, and shall be
inserted into the hole as soon as I get home.


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Pb

Phokep makhe "contemplative" atap!