tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 04 00:04:36 1999
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Re: Placement of aspect suffixes
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Placement of aspect suffixes
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 03:04:18 EST
In a message dated 3/3/1999 8:39:13 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< you are tangling together the ideas of tense and aspect. Mandarin Chinese
seems to use its "finish" particle for either idea. >>
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Wrong! Mandarin Chinese grammarians point out that Mandarin Chinese has NO
tenses at all! It has ONLY aspect.
peHruS