The very first version required tenses to be marked with some agreement indicating what entity's perspective they were from - I'm planning to do the same thing with V4, but haven't figured out how it'll work just yet. Effectively, there were particles such that you'd have "the man hit [1-recent.fut] [2-pst] the dog" meaning "The man is just about to hit the dog (as far as I can see), but from your perspective he has already done so", and there was also a kind of "universal" time which was meant to describe strictly-linear progression (e.g. "from the perspective of a thing that cannot time travel").
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A lang has a Bantu-style noun class system. If the class marker precedes the lexical root, the noun is non-generic. If the class marker follows the lexical root, the noun is gereric.
(Idea taken from Pilipino "triggers" in verbs whose location encodes aspect.)
(Idea taken from Pilipino "triggers" in verbs whose location encodes aspect.)
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You've probably heard of pluractionality, so how about duactionality, a verbal number used if an event occurs exactly twice?
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Could the same form also mean 'redo'?Creyeditor wrote: ↑17 Feb 2021 09:56 You've probably heard of pluractionality, so how about duactionality, a verbal number used if an event occurs exactly twice?
Pluractionality also often means that several persons do the same thing separately. Probably that could also be the case with duactionality.
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Actually, ANADEW. Mono-Alu (Oceanic) has both duactionality and pluractionality. I thought I invented the word duactionality, but I forgot to google beforehand.
I like both ideas. The first one could also include things like trying again. The second could be used for dual subjects to indicate separate actions. Dual subjects plus a default verb form would indicate joint action.
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To me “duactionality” suggests “do it again: except, this time, actually do it!”
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