Re: The て+いる form of "punctual" verbs

Bart Mathias wrote:
> muchan wrote:
>
>>[...]
>>To say "My brother has gone to France and isn't here",
>>probably a native speaker doesn't say
>> 「兄は今フランスに行って、いない」
>>but say instead
>> 「兄は今フランスに行って（い）て（ここには）いない」.
>>
>>Within the paranthesis is not neccessary, but additional て is
>>essential.
>
>
> Is it safe, then, to conclude that to a native speaker, 兄は今フランスに
> 行っていない would always be understood as "My brother (hasn't gone to
> and) isn't in France" or "My brother has never been to France"?
>
> And that it is a perfectly natural utterance in one and/or the other of
> those senses?
>
> Bart

"always" or not is a question, but I think most of native speaker
would understand 兄は今フランスに行っていない as
" now my brother is not visiting France".

muchan

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