Re: Voice, Mood, and Tense

kljensen@image.dk writes:
>You're right about Tagalog aspect. There is nothing more to it than
>perfective, imperfective, and intentive (or as your teacher calls them;
>completed, continuing, and contemplated), while tense is expressed
>paraphrastically. But there is no voice.

I actually found the aspect system easy to use when we got to it in my
Tagalog class (its all the focuses and remembering which verbs are one
tense and not the other, etc. that got me =)). The amazing thing was in
one and one half months us beginners were writing simple page long essays.
 Anyway, about voice, the two books i have say that the focuses kind of
have voice, but since Tagalog isn't an IE lang, its like comparing apples
to oranges :). They say that the object focus (-In) is close to passive,
and the actor focus (Um and Mag) is close to active.




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