On Monday, August 31, 2015 21:39:23 Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
> Neither {fi'o ... fe'u} constructs. Why can't they be tenses?
They are an open class equivalent to BAI. The selbri inside can be converted
with SE.
> That would by semantics include {ka'a}, won't it? or you want to allow
> spatial markers but make a syntactic exclusion for Lojban?
{ka'a} is grammatically not a tense marker, but a member of BAI.
Sometimes tense is conflated with aspect and mood, the whole thing being called
tense; sometimes they are separated. We should probably have words for both.
In Lojban, aspects and tenses are expressed in the same way, but with different
selma'o; mood, however, is expressed differently. The modals (CAhA) are part of
the tense-aspect system, but subjunctive and irrealis are expressed with some
members of UI, and the imperative is expressed with a pronoun.
Pierre
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