Re: My Grammatical Sketch (again!)

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Austin Taylor wrote:

> There is am imperfect tense in Latin that corresponds to the
> Katabala imperfect tense; it denotes an incompleted action
> began in the past.  I guess you could call it past
> progressive...
>
> Also, I scrapped present and past affirmative, so just
> pretend those particles aren't there.
>
> Yes, I forgot to add an imperative, but all my other moods
> stand as they are.  The imperative mood particle shall be {hsara}.
This isn't meant as a criticism, just a question that also applies to my
language (Hatasoe).  I have a trouble with imperatives; aren't they
usually, in natural languages, very unmarked?  So, in Spanish, they're
just the root and the "theme vowel", in OE they're just the root without
the infinitive marker, and in Latin, again, they're just the root and the
"theme vowel" (I don't know if that's an actual term or not; I once saw it
in a book that talked about Latin, and picked it up).