On Monday, August 31, 2015 19:13:21 Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
> The previous constucts were proposed expansions of TAhE.
>
> I don't think I can immediately understand which features tense markers
> must possess to be called tenses (not being able to take SE, not being able
> to work as sumtcita?) but
>
> what I can say that your question isn't relevant to the notion of "tense
> marker" in general but to Lojbanic understanding of it. So any new brivla
> (hopefully not cimjvo invading jvajvo space) would do.
Tense is a grammatical thing. Most languages, including Lojban, have tense.
English has a synthetic past tense marked by "-ed" in weak verbs and vowel
changes in strong verbs, and several analytic tenses, but no separate tense
markers. Chickasaw has a tense marker "tok". Tok Pisin has tense markers "bin"
and "bai" and auxiliary verbs "stap" and "pinis". (Wiktionary calls them all
tense markers, but the last two are verbs in their own right.) What exactly is
a tense marker has to be figured out for each language, and a particular word
may change from an auxiliary to a tense marker.
In Lojban, the syntactic difference is that tense markers cannot be converted
with SE.
Both tense markers (many selma'o) and proper prepositions (BAI) can
be used as prepositions.
The word I'm looking for is one for the general notion of grammatical tense,
including Lojban spatial tenses.
Pierre
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La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre.
Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.
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