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on 4/3/02 8:14 AM, John Schilke at doc@hidden.email wrote: >> ... Important to remember that a lot of aspect is, as you say, > intertwined >> with tense in English, and is expressed not grammatically, but > semantically. >> Russian, for example, has aspect all over the place, usually with prefixes >> on verbs. > In fact, it really is more nearly correct to say that Russian (and other > Slavic lanugages, too) uses different verbs for different aspects, though > the perfective verbs are often compounds of imperfectives. You're quite right, and me with a degree in Russian! > The discussion leads me to state that I think we might well think of > dropping the systems of tense in favor of aspect alone -- either as > imperfective/perfective, or as complete/ incomplete/ planned/ imagined. > Glosa has this business of "fu," "du," "pa" for tenses (only if needed) and > often it remains unused. I don't want to eliminate the tense markers, but I'd like to have the aspect markers also, everything optional, so we can see what happens. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/