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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Translating the past
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Sun Apr 13 00:54:15 2014
From: ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
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Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 00:53:58 -0400
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On Apr 12, 2014, at 10:53 AM, "Robyn Stewart" <robyn@flyingstart.ca> wrote:
> So why do you think Marc Okrand uses the perfective so much more than we do?
My guess is that he doesn't do a lot of extended reporting on or discussion of past events, where the time context is already established before most of the description occurs.
> There can easily be something special about hunger and thirst.
Such special pleading is not necessary. The paq'batlh has many other relevant examples, most of which have active verbs like {leng} and {Qoy} and {qel}.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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