[Tlhingan-hol] mutually subordinate clauses?
De'vID jonpIn
de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 04:54:59 PDT 2012
ghunchu'wI':
>> and {tujqu'choH QuQ} (TKD p.170),
SuStel:
> This is a better counter-example. I think the {-choH} is the explanation, falling under the "usually" part of the rule you point out below. It refers to an event starting and continuing. On a timeline, it would be an event starting abruptly and spreading into the future.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if this weren't somewhere described as a grammatical aspect with a particular name.
The term of art is "inchoative":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchoative_aspect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchoative_verb
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