[Tlhingan-hol] Aspect, etc

[Will Martin]

Are you suggesting that any statement without an explicit time stamp or perfective suffix is a generic statement about habits, and not a statement about a specific instance of an action that occurred at a specifiable time?

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> On Dec 3, 2015, at 12:00 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> 
> On 12/3/2015 11:53 AM, Lieven wrote:
>> Am 03.12.2015 um 17:21 schrieb SuStel:
>>> But because TKD says "The absence of a Type 7 suffix usually means that
>>> the action is not completed and is not continuous," we must generally
>>> assume that you did NOT complete killing the targ. You did not add
>>> {-pu'}, so you did not complete the action.
>> 
>> qama'pu' DIHoH net Sov.
> 
> Right. Here you're not specifying an action you undertook and completed (perfective, accomplished), and you're not talking about an action you're in the middle of performing (continuous, in progress); you're describing your habit or tendency. This doesn't say "one knows we killed the prisoners" and it doesn't say "one knows we are killing the prisoners."
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