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Re: tujpu'



ja' SuStel:
>/tujpu'/ means that the state of being hot is, was, or will be complete.

Agreed.  That's the definition of {-pu'}.

>"Complete" does indeed imply that the state no longer is.

However, I don't agree with this implication.  Are you're making a
distinction between active and stative verbs?  {chenpu'} certainly doesn't
imply to me that the thing which takes form no longer exists, and {ba'pu'}
says nothing to me about whether or not one is still sitting.  I see no
reason to treat {tuj} any differently from {chen} when using aspect.

>  If I say /tujpu'
>bIQ/, I'm not denying the possibility that /tujqa' bIQ/, but definitely at
>some point /tujbe' bIQ/.

maQochbej.

>If /tujpu'/ didn't mean that after something was /tuj/ it was /tujbe'/, then
>/-pu'/ would be referring to tense, not aspect.  /tujpu'/ doesn't mean "at
>some point before the current time context something was hot and I'm not
>saying whether it is hot at the current time context," it means, "at some
>point before the current time context something was hot and then ceased to
>be hot, but I'm not saying whether it's hot at the current time context."

I don't see anything persuasive in your argument.  It looks like you're
saying that {-pu'} implies {-be'choHpu'}.  The meaning which you insist is
the correct interpretation definitely expands on the word "complete" as I
understand it, and I just don't see why you are convinced that the
expansion is obvious.

I rarely come to a point in debates about grammar where I take this stand,
and I apologize for it, but I'm going to have to wait until Okrand says
something about it before I change my mind.

-- ghunchu'wI'


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