Re: [Off topic] You language-y types.

Paul Blay wrote:
> "Dan Rempel" <drempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
>
>> Paul Blay wrote:
>>
>>> What sort of thing do you call sentences like the following
>>> with regard to tense?
>>>
>>> "I am going home soon."
>>
>>
>> I'd go along with you, and add that it's progressive; some linguists
>> lump that under tense, but I tend to think of it as aspect. 'Soon' is a
>> modifier and I don't think if affects the tense/aspect. So,
>> pedanticially speaking, ya gotcher basic sentence with the verb phrase
>> in present progressive, and post-modifiers of place and time.
>
>
> That sounds plausible to me.

I should add that the phrase "some linguists" does not imply that I am
"some other linguist," since I ain't one at all.

Dan
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