On 1/29/2020 10:13 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
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" ?
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. Yes, I agree with your interpretation of *pa' jIratlhpu',* with the usual caveat that there is no /now/ built into the sentence; the remaining could have occurred and been completed in the past /(I remained there) /or future /(I will have remained there)./ But I recognize you were probably just using /now/ 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. Here's a possibly easier to grasp intransitive action verb: *quSDaq jIQongpu'*/I slept on the chair; I will have slept on the chair./ It means I completed an act of sleeping, probably followed by waking up. That act of sleeping is finished. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name