tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 21 12:36:27 2009
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Re: Klingon Sentence Structure
- From: Tracy Canfield <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon Sentence Structure
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:34:57 -0500
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I'd say that the aspect suffix depends on a larger context. If I
heard the English sentence on its own, I'd assume the speaker meant
both "on one occasion in particular" and "now we're back", but that
wouldn't have to be true.
In French, for example, which marks aspect in the past tense, we have
Samedi on a visité la terre <- just once, perfective
We visited Earth on Friday
Le samedi on visitait la terre <- repeatedly, imperfective
We visited Earth every Friday
The same English verb, "visited", can describe either the completed or
the repeated action. So I agree that its translation doesn't
necessarily require a perfective suffix.
2009/11/21 Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>:
> --- On Sat, 11/21/09, Tracy Canfield <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Finally, since the visit is completed, we need an aspect
>> suffix -
>> something that tells whether an action is completed, in
>> progress, or
>> neither. The marker for a completed action is -pu'.
>>
>> visited - wISuchpu'
>>
>> Put them all together and you get
>>
>> tera' wISuchpu' jIH SoH je
>>
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> I would dispute the need for the aspect suffix; otherwise, very nicely put.
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