tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 04 19:49:36 1999
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Re: Aspect
ja' peHruS:
>Why cannot the perfection of the action take place "during" the visiting? If
>it cannot, then Klingon is different from ANY Earth language I have been able
>to discover which uses aspect alone or a combination of aspect, aktionsart,
>and/or tense.
Perfective doesn't "take place" at a particular time. Perfective is a state,
not an event. If "the perfection of the action" has not occurred, the verb
does not possess the perfective quality, so the {-pu'} and {-ta'} suffixes
are not appropriate.
>Finally, how do you render the Klingon sentence meaning "The boy saw the man
>(and that completion of seeing the man occurred during) while the man was
>visiting the woman"?
If by "completion" you mean "accomplishment":
be' SuchtaHvIS loD, loD legh loDHom 'e' ta' loDHom.
If by "completion" you mean "finishing":
be' SuchtaHvIS loD, loD legh loDHom 'e' mev loDHom.
-- ghunchu'wI'