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Re: Screeve question

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Saturday, July 26, 2003, 23:53
--- Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...> wrote:

> For the two languages I'm forcing myself to > work more on, I want to use > a "screeve" system like Georgian does. I > understand that these "screeves" > combine some features of tense and aspect. And > I like how not > every 'aspect' is available to each 'tense', > and thus the "screeve" system > is nicely messier than a straightfoward > tense/aspect "grid" might be. But I > don't really understand how they work!
I'm not sure if this is the same or similar, but Talarian seems to be aimed in that general direction. Active verbs can either have tense or aspect, but not both. That is, the Punctual conjugation has aspects habitual, aorist, progressive, continual and iterative; the Durative conjugation has past and nonpast time. And you can't combine the two. The Stative conjugation (as opposed to the Active) has neither time nor aspect, but in stead marks its states as either the result of an outside action or as a state without respect to anything exterior to itself [i.e., mortar sartas = "they are dead"; memortar sartas = "they are murdered / they are dead as the result of a murder"]. Don't know if that helps at all. Padraic. ===== Ne savem rhen cong quen dormises l' Etang; mays ieo savem que ne dormises rhen di solèz. -- per tradicièn Ewrnor .