tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 24 00:27:14 1999
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Re: Placement of aspect suffixes
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Placement of aspect suffixes
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 03:26:40 EST
In a message dated 2/23/1999 10:34:30 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] 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