Re: Locating a Sentence's Action in Time
Saul Epstein 
Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:20:38 -0500

Quotes from: Saul Epstein <locus*planetkc,com>
Date: Sunday, October 4, 1998 11:06 AM
 
> Quotes from: Rob Zook
> Date: Sunday, October 4, 1998 3:27 AM
>  
> > Now lets allow that act of writing some duration. What if I
> > say that sentance after I begin writing the invitation but
> > before the process of writing has ended:
> > 
> > lihe th'k'tvezohi vdik'wawjehi
> > "I wrote the invitation (and am still writing it)"
> 
> As I meant it to operate, this sentence would mean, roughly "I have
> written the invitation," possibly implying "I am even now signing
my
> name at the bottom," or some such. In other words, the action does
> not continue  significantly beyond the moment of speech.

Sorry, I missed the tense there. That should be "I _had_ written the
invitation," not "have." Possibly implying "I was even then (in the
fairly distant past) signing my name at the bottom."

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