Jul23 –  A Constructed Language

Jul23 Usage

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Aspect Usage

The aspects are relative to some temporal point of reference, which varies depending on the context. When the temporal point of reference is the time of utterance, the aspects act like absolute tenses:

• The present aspect denotes present time.
• The future aspect denotes future time.
• The perfect aspect denotes indefinite past time.
• The aoristic aspect denotes definite past time.

The aspect of a temporal adjunct specifies the temporal relationship between the referent of the adjunct clause and that of its host clause:

Temporal Relationships

Aspect	Relationship
Present	host event during adjunct situation
Perfect	host event after adjunct event
Future	host event before adjunct event
Aoristic	adjunct event during host situation

Special Verb Usage

Determining Verbs

A number of verbs act as determiners semantically:

Determining Verbs

Verb	Tag	Description	Glosses
den	Ana	anaphoric	the (same)
nu	Ind	indefinite (specific)	some, a
how	NR	non-referential	any
tiy	Prox	proximal demonstrative	this/these, here
sow	Medi	medial demonstrative	that/those, there
law	Dist	distal demonstrative	yon, yonder
kway	Q	interrogative	which, where
fru	Sat	satisfactive	such
byaw	Uni	universal quantifier	all
kley	Dstr	distributive	each
trin			the other

• The anaphoric verb is used to reintroduce a referent whose index has been reset.

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