Re: Inmediateness
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 20, 1998, 20:21 |
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Carlos Thompson wrote:
> Question: how is used in other languages (conlangs and natlangs) tense in
> orther to mean urgency.
I don't know about _urgency_, but as far as immediacy, Wa^nsansanu (my
conlang) has an immediate past, l(i)-, and an immediate future qai-. I
don't know how to indicate urgency.
Some natlangs have multiple future tenses, for example ChiBemba has the
following tenses:
Remote Past (before yesterday)
ba-a`li'-bomb-ele = they worked
Removed Past (yesterday)
ba-a`li'i'-bomba = they worked
Near Past (earlier today)
ba-a`ci'-bomba = they worked
Immediate Past (just happened)
ba-a'-bomba = they worked
Immediate Future (very soon)
ba-a'la'a'-bomba = they'll work
Near Future (later today)
ba-le'e'-bomba = they'll work
Removed Future (tomorrow)
ba-ka`-bomba = they'll work
Remote Future (after tomorrow)
ba-ka'-bomba = they'll work
graves and apostrophes indicate graves and acutes on the previous vowel
(indicating tone)
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