On 8/22/2016 2:53 PM, Lieven wrote:
For instance to say something like "I hope that I will have killed the man by tomorrow evening" you can use the aspect suffix.
{qaSpa' wa'leS ram loD vIHoHta' 'e' vItul}
NOW I hope (a non-contunious and not ended situation) that at the moment called "tommorow evening" (an event in the future) the action of killing is over (hence the -ta') suffix.
Is that understandable? (@mayqel) Is that correct? (@SuStel)
Let's drop the *'e' vItul* so that we don't get into questions of whether I hope by tomorrow evening or I will have killed the man by tomorrow evening. Besides, the second verb in an SAO is prohibited from taking aspect suffixes. *qaS'pa' wa'leS ram loD vIHoHta' */before tomorrow night occurs I will have killed the man/ This looks right to me. If the *-ta'* had been left off I'd read it more as a general declaration of activity: I'll be killing men up to tomorrow night. And the *qaSpa'* doesn't need a completion aspect because we're not talking about the completion of night occurring. By the way, your original with *'e' vItul* doesn't necessarily mean that the hoping happens now (assuming you mean the tomorrow night part to apply to the killing). Maybe I hoped two weeks ago that I'd have killed the man by tomorrow night. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name