TECH: Minor Semantic Change TENSE #2

TENSE #2

CURRENT LANGUAGE:

No meaning is currently assigned to ZEhA, VEhA, VIhA, TAhE, ROI cmavo
when used as sumti tcita.

PROPOSED CHANGE:

Interpret the sumti as specifying the interval during which the main bridi
is true, thus:

1)	mi klama le zarci reroi le cabdei
	I go-to the market [twice] the current-day
	I go to the market twice today.

RATIONALE:

It is useful to be able to specify a particular interval to be used with
a tensed bridi.  Currently, there is no simple mechanism for doing this,
and interval-cmavo sumti tcita stand vacant.  The reason that no previous
meaning was documented for them was a lack of consistency between the
interpretation of directional/metric (PU, ZI, FAhA, VA) sumti tcita and
interval ones.

However, there is no consistency between the interpretations of directional/
metric sumti tcita and interval-contour (ZAhO) sumti tcita anyway.  The
former group interpret the seltcita sumti as an origin, whereas the latter
group interpret the sumti as the whole process of which the main bridi
is a portion.  Introducing a third interpretation (namely, sumti as
interval) will not make things worse, and fills a hole both in interpretation
of grammatical constructs and in speakability.

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