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[tlhIngan-Hol] Re: KLBC: default aspect?

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

lay'tel SIvten wrote:

>with suffixes for perfective aspect (-pu', -ta') and continuous (ie
>imperfective) aspect (-taH, -lI'), what is the aspect of unmarked verbs?

They are imperfective "not-perfective" (i.e. completed).

In an aspectual system, actions are viewed as either completed (perfective) 
or not completed (imperfective).  Rather like being pregnant; you either 
are or you're not.  Tertium non datur.

{-taH} "continuous" and {-lI'} "in progress" are two special sub-classes of 
the imperfective, or ways of looking at the action 
(*Aktionsarten*):  {-taH} = action not completed, but continuous; {-lI'} = 
action not completed, but in progress (toward a known goal or definite 
stopping point).



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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