Re: dumb question about tense names
| From: | Cian Ross <cian@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 21, 2006, 5:37 |
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On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 23:28, Roger Mills wrote:
> Cian Ross wrote:
>
> > I presume I'm not alone in having a set of tenses that cover
> > past+present and present+future (in Veldan). But has anyone come up
> > with a name for either of those? I presume the answer is 'yes' and I'm
> > just not looking in the right places.
> >
> Possibly: present+past "realis", present+future "irrealis" ???? though I
> think those are modes or aspects, however, not tenses strictly speaking.
In any case, I now have exactly one word in Veldan that describes a
grammatical category. :) The above are the "lebaina" (combination)
tenses (ultimately from a verb meaning go together or go along with).
Cian Ross
cian@cox-internet.com
http://crlh.tzo.org/~cian/conlang/