|
bļ
|
ka-t -b
|
‘He/she saw (long
ago)’
|
|
he/she
|
see past
|
|
|
bulu
|
|
‘They ate (long
ago)’
|
|
they
|
eat past
|
|
|
|
| 4.11.3.
Future tense |
|
It indicate that the action will take place in time yet to come. It
has two sub-classes -(a) simple future (b) specified future. |
| 1)
Simple future : |
| For first
and third person, the marker is /-ye/, and for second person, the
marker is /-laN/. |
|
|
nm
|
kį-ye
|
‘I shall see you’
|
|
I
|
you
|
see fut
|
|
|
bļ
|
nm
|
kį-ye
|
‘He will see you’
|
|
he
|
you
|
see fut
|
|
lu |
appinem
|
d-ye
|
‘We shall eat food’
|
|
we
|
food
|
eat fut
|
|
|
bulu
|
kitabdėm
|
nm
bi-ye
|
‘They will give
a book
|
|
they
|
book
|
you give fut
|
to you’
|
|
menjuridė
|
dugi-ye
|
|
‘The cat will run’
|
|
the cat
|
run fut
|
|
|
|
iki
|
dė
|
yłbi-ye
|
‘The dog will sleep’
|
|
the
|
dog
|
sleep fut
|
|
n
|
d-la
|
|
‘You will eat’
|
|
you
|
eat fut
|
|
|
nlu
|
gļ-la
|
|
‘You (pl) will go’
|
|
you (pl)
|
go fut
|
|
|
|
|
| 2)
Specified future : |
| It indicates
that the action will take place either in immediate future or at a
future point of time which is specified. It is marked by /-pye-/.
|
|
|
d -pye
|
|
‘I am about to eat’
|
|
I
|
eat fut
|
|
|
|
|
g -pye
|
|
‘I am about to go’
|
|
I
|
go fut
|
|
|
kke
|
abu
|
g-pye
|
‘My father will
go ( at a
|
|
my
|
father
|
go fut
|
time specified)’
|
|
|
| 4.12.
Aspect |
| Any action
indicated by a verb has its own temporal distribution contour. The
different distributional contours with reference to time are called
aspects. There are three aspects in Missing viz., repetitive, durative
and perfective. |
| 4.12.1.
Repetitive aspect : |
| The language
shows a three-way opposition in tense with reference to repetitive
viz., past, present and future. |
| a)
Present repetitive : |
| The verb
expresses that the act is repeated with reference to the present time.
The verb takes /-d¨/ as the repetitive
marker. |
