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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] mutually subordinate clauses?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Wed Jun 13 08:16:23 2012
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:15:33 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmMnAiC_x=W6d=4fa2aoTzUVdh=E-P6c7fGRYNdYASXDPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/13/2012 7:54 AM, De'vID jonpIn wrote:
>
> ghunchu'wI':
>>> and {tujqu'choH QuQ} (TKD p.170),
>
> SuStel:
>> This is a better counter-example. I think the {-choH} is the
>> explanation, falling under the "usually" part of the rule you point
>> out below. It refers to an event starting and continuing. On a
>> timeline, it would be an event starting abruptly and spreading into
>> the future.
>>
>> I wouldn't be surprised if this weren't somewhere described as a
>> grammatical aspect with a particular name.
>
> The term of art is "inchoative":
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchoative_aspect
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchoative_verb
chong!
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SuStel
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