Re: verbal system

Florian Rivoal wrote:
> i was thinking of having two verb groups. in one, comjugation would
> indicate tense, in the other, aspect. and the first group could have
> mainly (or only, i am not sure) action verbs, while the second would
> be more (or completely)filled with stative verbs.
I suspect that they would tend to merge in some way.  Either the two
groups will come to share suffixes so that they both mark tense *and*
aspect, or the categories in one will be redefined to fit the other,
e.g., perfect -> past or vice versa.  That doesn't *seem* to me to be a
stable system, but who knows, I might be wrong.  :-)

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