[102723] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Aspect, etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Tue Dec 1 19:11:32 2015
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 19:10:28 -0500
In-Reply-To: <565e3484.49e33c0a.84acb.089d@mx.google.com>
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On 12/1/2015 7:00 PM, chransberry@gmail.com wrote:
> I noticed that there are suffixes to indicate a completed action, an
> ongoing (continuous) action, and a progressive action. Am I correct in
> my observation that there is no suffix for a going-to-happen action?
Correct; there is no such suffix.
> Also, in regards to "time-stamps", I see that one can say "a year ago"
> and such, but how would one express that something happened at some
> unspecified time in the past (or in the future, for that matter)?
I believe paq'batlh has {'op ben} for "some years ago." You can also say
{ben law'} "many years ago" or {leS puS} "a few days from now" or {tup
pIq} "a few minutes from now" or even {qen} "recently."
Don't forget that the completion suffixes aren't used for past tense. I
might say {wa' Hu' yaS qIppu' puq} "yesterday the child hit the officer"
because the hitting was completed as soon as it was performed, but I
would not use it for {wa'Hu' jIghung} "yesterday I was hungry" because
my hunger is not a completed action.
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SuStel
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