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What is the difference between {ta'e}, "habitually" and
{na'o}, "typically".
It seems to me that for an event to be typical in a given time
interval, it has to happen habitually, i.e. enough/most times
within the interval.
For example:
ta'e le puzi nanca be li pano la djan stali le xelso ze'a lo'e crisa
Typically in the last ten years, John has spent the summer in Greece.
Given all possible instances in the ten year interval of John
spending the summer in Greece, enough/most of them actually
happened, so we can say that the event was typical in that
interval. Would that be a correct analysis?
What about {na'o}? The only other aspect other than possible
time instances that I can think for an event to be typical in
is across possible worlds. Would {na'o} mean that the event
is typical across possible worlds? Something like:
na'o tu'o du'u la djan ponse lo jdini kei dy stali
le xelso ze'a lo'e crisa
Whenever John has money/if John had money, he would normally
spend the summer in Greece.
This would mean {ta'e} is approximately the same as {rau so'e roi}
and {na'o} is approximately {rau so'e mu'ei}. Would that be a
reasonable analysis?
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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