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- Mon Jan 24, 2022 3:17 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Transitive form of intransitive verbs
- Replies: 10
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Re: Transitive form of intransitive verbs
I am specifically interested in the verb forms of adjectives denoting properties of objects. (hot, long, blue, hard...)
- Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Transitive form of intransitive verbs
- Replies: 10
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Transitive form of intransitive verbs
In my conlang adjectives are verbs:
- "It is being-blue".
- "It is being-blue it".
- Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:23 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Tense, aspect, & what?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10882
Re: Tense, aspect, & what?
well I was "going to" try to explain it to you but since you don't seem to be getting it I guess I will no longer be "going to" do that.
- Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:51 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Tense, aspect, & what?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10882
Re: Tense, aspect, & what?
1, 2, & 3 are all happening at 2. The speaker is speaking at 2 and is looking forward in time to what is about to happen (#3) or or looking back in time to what just happened (#1). The speaker starts "going to fix" at the beginning of the first red arrow (#1) and continues to do so til...
- Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:24 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Tense, aspect, & what?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10882
Re: Tense, aspect, & what?
You put ... "have been" before the thing it describes "I have been fixing" (#4) describes the entire time period from the start of the fixing until the moment marked with a 5. The statement itself is made by the speaker at the moment marked with a 5. The speaker is looking back ...
- Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:01 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Tense, aspect, & what?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10882
Re: Tense, aspect, & what?
All this is complicated by the fact that when you switch to the past tense you also switch the direction of the verb.
I am going to fix.
I am fixing.
The car is fixed.
Hence the use of "having fixed" and "having been" in the posts above.
I am going to fix.
I am fixing.
The car is fixed.
Hence the use of "having fixed" and "having been" in the posts above.
- Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:20 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Tense, aspect, & what?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10882
Re: Tense, aspect, & what?
then what are 1,3,4,6,7,9? They are the time periods that the speaker is referring to. 4 is "I have been fixing (something)". The speaker is referring back to the time period during which he was fixing something which extends from the beginning of the box up to 5. (1)I AM having been goin...
- Tue Jan 18, 2022 11:50 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Tense, aspect, & what?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10882
Re: Tense, aspect, & what?
The box represents the time period during which "fixing" is taking place. Time is moving in the direction of the arrows. The moment "I am", during which the speaker is speaking is speaking, is the present which is either 2, 5, or 8. 2 is an arbitrary moment before "fixing&qu...
- Tue Jan 18, 2022 10:33 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Tense, aspect, & what?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10882
Re: Tense, aspect, & what?
number 4 is simply "I have been fixing". I just extended that pattern and regularized it.
- Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:16 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Tense, aspect, & what?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10882
Re: Tense, aspect, & what?
I started with the grammatical sentences and then regularized them. This question isn't about English grammar. It's a question about tenses and aspects and whatever the other thing is.
- Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:11 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Tense, aspect, & what?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10882
Re: Tense, aspect, & what?
See the edit I made to the op.
- Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:59 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Tense, aspect, & what?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10882
Tense, aspect, & what?
Tense + ???? + aspect. What I want to know is what is " ???? "? (3)I AM going to be going to fix (6)I AM going to be fixing... (9)I AM going to be having fixed (2)I AM going to fix... (5)I AM fixing... (8)I AM having fixed... (1)I AM having been going to fix... (4)I AM having been fixing.....