Re: Placement of aspect suffixes

[WestphalWz@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/23/1999 10:34:30 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
aranders@netusa1.net writes:

<< And you're quite right, there are no explicit references to Klingon past
 tense, perfective or otherwise...for the simple reason that there is no
 Klingon past tense to refer to.
  >>

Actually, TKD p41, section 4.2.7 does say explicitly that {-pu'} is
"perfective."  p167 says "perfective" again.

It seems that I am missing some discussion on (not verbatim) "a time stamp
stays in place until another time stamp is introduced."  Also, I had not heard
that using the "perfective" in a statement that was already inferred to be
occurring in the past changed the whole sentence into a "past perfect" or
"pluperfect."  What issues of HolQeD or what forum revealed these ideas to
you?

peHruS