lieven:
From ST3 {vIje' rIntaH} means that valkris has bought the thing, the action of buying is complete, in the sense that this situation will last forever, not that it's over forever. SuStel: This is true for action verbs, because the verb brings about a change of state. When you je', you change the owner of the object of the sentence. rIntaH means that the action of buying is over, and the new state of ownership is permanent. This works generally for action verbs. But verbs of quality (without syntax- changing suffixes) do not describe an action that brings about a change of state. They simply describe a quality. With rIntaH, a quality means you set out to be that quality, you completed being that quality (so now it's over), and what you've done is final.
If I understand correctly, by "verbs of quality", we mean be-verbs, which are intransitive. 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 ? For simplicity reasons, lets leave aside the {rIntaH}. Suppose I write: {pa' jIratlhpu'}. Would you agree that it means: "I have remained there, but now my remaining there is over, i.e. now I'm somewhere else" ? ~ mayqel qunen'oS