tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 04 07:37:34 1999
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Re: Aspect
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 [email protected] wrote:
> Here are some sentences for comments:
>
> loD legh puq = The boy sees the man.
> loD leghtaH puq = The boy is seeing the man.
> loD leghpu' puq = The boy has seen the man.
> loD leghta' puq = The boy saw the man and may see him again.
> loD leghlI' puq = The boy sees the man now but won't keep on seeing him for
> long.
These look fine to my eyes, though that last one's a tad strange...
The sentence below, OTOH:
> be' SuchtaHvIS loD, loD leghta' puq = The boy was seeing the man and may still
> see the man for a limited duration, while the man has been visiting the woman.
> be' SuchtaHvIS loD, loD leghlI' puq = The boy is seeing the man, but it will
> end soon, and simultaneously the man is visiting the woman.
Although I suppose are possible in tlhIngan, don't make much sense to me.
Comments form the grammerians?
> be' SuchDI' loD, loD legh puq = When the man visits the woman, the boy will
> see the man.
> be' Suchpu'DI' loD, loD legh puq = Once the man has visited the woman, the boy
> will see him.
> be' SuchDI' loD, loD leghtaH puq = When the man visits the woman, the boy will
> still be seeing him.
> be' Suchpu'DI' loD, loD leghtaH puq = As soon as the man finishes visiting the
> woman, the boy will still be seeing him.
> be' SuchDI' loD, loD leghpu' puq = When the man visited the woman, the boy had
> seen him.
> be' Suchpu'DI' loD, loD leghpu' puq = By the time the man had visited the
> woman, the boy had already seen him.
>
> be' Suchpa' loD, loD legh puq = The boy saw the man before the man saw the
> woman.
> be' Suchpu'pa' loD, loD legh puq = The boy saw the man before the man had seen
> the woman.
> be' Suchpa' loD, loD leghtaH puq = The boy was seeing the man even before the
> man saw the woman.
> be' Suchpu'pa' loD, loD leghtaH puq = Before the man had completed seeing the
> woman, the boy was seeing that man.
> be' Suchpa' loD, loD leghpu' puq = The boy had seen the man before the man saw
> the woman.
> be' Suchpu'pa' loD, loD leghpu' puq = The boy had already seen the man before
> the man had seen the woman.
Yup, these work for me.
> That's enough for now.
>
> peHruS
>
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