[Tlhingan-hol] Aspect, etc

[SuStel]

On 12/1/2015 7:00 PM, chransberry at gmail.com wrote:
> I noticed that there are suffixes to indicate a completed action, an
> ongoing (continuous) action, and a progressive action. Am I correct in
> my observation that there is no suffix for a going-to-happen action?

Correct; there is no such suffix.

> Also, in regards to "time-stamps", I see that one can say "a year ago"
> and such, but how would one express that something happened at some
> unspecified time in the past (or in the future, for that matter)?

I believe paq'batlh has {'op ben} for "some years ago." You can also say 
{ben law'} "many years ago" or {leS puS} "a few days from now" or {tup 
pIq} "a few minutes from now" or even {qen} "recently."

Don't forget that the completion suffixes aren't used for past tense. I 
might say {wa' Hu' yaS qIppu' puq} "yesterday the child hit the officer" 
because the hitting was completed as soon as it was performed, but I 
would not use it for {wa'Hu' jIghung} "yesterday I was hungry" because 
my hunger is not a completed action.

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