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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:33:00AM -0700, Rex May - Baloo wrote:
> Can Loglan do this too? I've forgotten.
Lojban uses separate words for aspect. Here they are, with an example of
what they would mean if used in the sentence "mi ca ____ tavla" (which,
without an aspect, is "I talk" in the present tense), and also the
diagrams of the event that the vocabulary list uses.
event
ba'o: perfective (I have talked) | |----
ca'o: continuative (I am talking) |-----|
pu'o: anticipative (I'm going to talk) ----| |
co'a: initiative (I'm starting to talk) >|< |
mo'u: completive (I have finished talking) | >|<
co'u: cessative (I've stopped talking (without necessarily finishing
successfully)) | >< |
za'o: superfective (I'm talking for too long) | ---->
co'i: achievative (Just now I talk) >|<
de'a: pausative (I pause in talking)
di'a: resumptitive (I resume talking)
I don't know if all of these are necessary. What we've been talking
about here are the ones that are used most in Lojban as well: ba'o,
ca'o, pu'o.
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Rob Speer