Re: MeloChalaka

In a message dated 9/22/01 9:40:24 PM, florarroz@YAHOO.COM writes:

There are already commonly used names for some of these, it seems:

> << C = Cyclical aspect
habitual aspect

> W = Waxing aspect, i.e. its getting more and more
incipient aspect

> Hm = Happy mood, the person who says this is happy about it.
This is kinda like the desiderative or the optative, but not
quite. Don't know of any natural languages that have something
like this.

> Com = completed aspect
perfective aspect

> NP = proximal past, the action has just happened. >>
recent past tense

> and...
> Infferent means all
> the action is occuring WITHIN the person, Reflexive, sort of.  "My
> heart beats" would be infferent, but "I beat myself" would be
> afferent.
This sounds like a middle voice, somewhat like "The vase broke".
In English, we have no real morphology to show that explicitly,
but rather use zero morphs to change the valence on the verb
(Agent breaks Patient > Patient breaks).

> Exfferent means all the action is occuring outside the speaker, the
> speaker is merely the observer.  So, you can keep the person the same,
> but change the voice, or keep the voice the same and change the
> person.
I seem to remember reading that a Maipuran Arawakan language
grammaticalizes this concept as well.  I'll go back and check
that when I get home. If so, I'll post the example.

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