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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/9/2020 9:54 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">I'm narrating a story about events which happened
yesterday. I'm looking back on completed events, so I use
perfective.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Suppose I write: </div>
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<div dir="auto">{wa'Hu', qaStaHvIS wej rep, jIQuchpu'}</div>
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<div dir="auto">What does it mean ? "yesterday, for the duration
of three hours, I've been happy" (i.e. my happiness lasted three
hours), or does it mean that during those three hours, I was
happy only once (for a period of time shorter than three hours,
e.g. a minute, an hour etc) ? Or can it mean too, that I was
happy more than once, i.e. my happiness going on-and-off ?</div>
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<p>Don't say this. Say: <b>wa'Hu', qaStaHvIS wej rep, jIQuch.</b></p>
<p>It's not about whether you're looking back on an event; it's
whether you're describing an event as completed. Here, you're not
describing your happiness as completed; you're describing it as
occurring during a particular time. That your happiness may have
subsequently ended is irrelevant. You're describing the moment it
was true, not the condition after it came to an end.</p>
<p>I'm not going to go into another conversation about what
perfective might mean on verbs expressing qualities.<br>
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