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Re: Aspect (was RE: KLBC-Fr.)



In a message dated 8/9/1999 7:10:34 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

<< 
 Erm, just working from your translation (I know no Chinese)... "has not" IS
 perfective!  That's what perfective is in English, anyway.  Maybe the tense
 is called imperfective for whatever reason by grammarians studying Chinese
 (the tenses in Sanskrit have all kinds of inaccurate names in the mouths of
 Western grammarians), but the meaning you've given it is
 *perfective*... which accords well with what others have been saying about
 Klingon, no?
 
 ~mark >>
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qatlho', ~mark.  perfective-bej je MO mu'tlhegh {not vIleghpu'}, qar'a'?  
QInlIj vIlaDpa' mumISpu' mu'tlheghvam.  rInDI' wanI' qaSlaHtaH 'e' vIQub.  
DaH jIQIjnISlaw'.  Chinangan Hol lo'lu'DI' chuv {-ne} <continuing action> 
rarnISbej {hai mei-you} <yet not (verb)>.  reH imperfective chuv {-ne} 
lughajbogh mu'tlheghmey!!!  vangtaH wanI' 'e' 'oSchu' chuv {-ne}.  vaj reH 
imperfective {hai mei-you} lughajbogh mu'tlheghmey.

perfective {mei-you} ghajbogh mu'tlhegh 'e' DaQIj.  chay' teH?  wej rInlI' 
wot vangtaHghach, qarbe''a'?

maj.  chaq Chinangan Hol vIHaDtaHvIS mughojHa'moHpu' HolQeD pabpo'pu'vetlh.  
DaH tlhIngan Hol aspect lo'lu'meH mIw vIghojchu' vIneHbej.

peHruS


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