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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/29/2020 10:13 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">If I understand correctly, by "verbs of quality",
we mean be-verbs, which are intransitive.
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<div dir="auto">But what happens, when we have an intransitive
non-be-verb, as is the case with {ratlh} ? Does it behave with
regards to aspect, as a be-verb ?</div>
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<div dir="auto">For simplicity reasons, lets leave aside the
{rIntaH}.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Suppose I write: {pa' jIratlhpu'}.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Would you agree that it means: "I have remained
there, but now my remaining there is over, i.e. now I'm
somewhere else" ?</div>
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<p>Transitivity is irrelevant here. What's important to this
discussion is whether it's a verb of quality, and whether that
changes whether an aspect suffix is allowed.</p>
<p>Yes, I agree with your interpretation of <b>pa' jIratlhpu',</b>
with the usual caveat that there is no <i>now</i> built into the
sentence; the remaining could have occurred and been completed in
the past <i>(I remained there) </i>or future <i>(I will have
remained there).</i> But I recognize you were probably just
using <i>now</i> for simplicity. I might go back later, or I
might have already returned and I'm there again now, but that
particular act of remaining is finished.<br>
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<p>Here's a possibly easier to grasp intransitive action verb: <b>quSDaq
jIQongpu'</b><i> I slept on the chair; I will have slept on the
chair.</i> It means I completed an act of sleeping, probably
followed by waking up. That act of sleeping is finished.<br>
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