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Conlangery #55: Practicum — Getting Rid of Tense

Conlangery Podcast

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Tents, Aspect and Mood - What's the Difference?

Aspect can be whether something is Completed or non-completed, or whether it's Obitual. Aspect tends to be more about How the speaker views an event's Occurrence in time. It's how a speaker views a certain event In terms of the time stream. A perfective is something that you view as a discrete event, and then The speaker is viewing as Sort of... Ongoing. Stretched out an ongoing event that Something else interrupts,. Or just that is more stretched out for some reason or another.

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