Re: tense and atemporality

At 02:29 PM 8/8/03 -0700, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
>Consider:
>
>jbena x1 is born to x2 at time x3 [birthday] and place x4 [birthplace];
>
>What does {mi fi li 1966;10;17 ba'o jbena} mean? That the relationship
>between "mi" and "1966;10;17" is no longer occurring?

Not having seen how you got here, so I'm probably putting by foot in my 
mouth ...

It means that there was an event of mi being born at that time, and it is 
the aftermath of that event. So yes, the event of your being born (which 
presumably happened at that time) is no longer occurring.

mi ba'o klama le zarci similarly means that we are in the aftermath of my 
going to the store.

I'm not sure how I see that there should be a difference, merely because 
one of the places is a time.

lojbab

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