tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 05 06:36:59 1999
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RE: Placement of aspect suffixes
jatlh peHruS:
> I infer from some of charghwI's writings that his understanding of Aspect's
> perfective is a vector pointing to an Event which must have reached completion
> before the time of the sentence. He seems to be stuck on some ideas of
> partitive-ness, but we have not brought this into the discussion before now.
What on Kronos do partitives have to do with aspect? A partitive is typically a noun
phrase that identifies, with a presuppositional interpretation, a "part" of a group.
"Three of the officers," "all of the targs," and so on. What does this have to do with
aspect?
Aspect is a state of completion. A state. Of completion. Is it completed, or is it
ongoing, from the perspective of the current time stamp? Klingon further distinguishes
between whether the state of completion is a known goal. That's really all there is to
it. Any other difficulties are being introduced by your attempts to map this onto other
languages, or other terminology that may or may not mean the same thing.
> peHruS
-- Holtej 'utlh