From - Mon Mar 25 12:11:12 1996 Reply-To: "John E. Clifford" Date: Mon Mar 25 12:11:12 1996 Sender: Lojban list From: "John E. Clifford" Subject: re'u X-To: lojban list To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 592 Message-ID: Is it significant that _pare'u_ can be expressed as a complex of more normal tense and aspects articles: "I went and never went before" (within the relevant time frame), say. And then the other ordinals come in from this. I am not sure that this catches everything xorxes means to do with this form, some of which do look unlike tense/aspect, but it does sugest that here is a tense/aspect notion here deserving to get out into the appropriate place. (And, the notion of tense/aspect is already so fluid that a little more expansion does not seem out of place anyhow.) pc>|83