Re: habitual

[Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>]

la bob cusku di'e

>    Its experience previous to what? Does ta'e make reference to what
>    went on before the interval in question?
>
> Yes, I think it must.  Otherwise the word cannnot have a meaning
> different from {na'o}, as you originally pointed out.

I'm glad we agree on something! This must be a first. :)

> Essentially, what I am saying is that {na'o} suggests looking at the
> experiences of *different* entities of the same category, occuring but
> (in theory at least, potentially,) at the same in time, while {ta'e}
> suggests looking at other experiences in the same category of the
> *same* entities, which of neccessity occur at different times.

What I understood was that the TAhEs referred exclusively to the way
the event fitted inside the interval in question. You are saying that
they compare the event with other more or less similar ones, that
happened before or simultaneously. I think something like that doesn't
really belong with the interval modifiers.

Jorge