Re: Screeve question

--- 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.


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