Re: ca'a/pu'i

[JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR>]

>>Isn't {ca'a} = "actually occurs" and {pu'i} = "actually occurred"?
>>How can they not relate to whether the event actually occurs?
>
 >I meant:
>They relate to potentiality of an event to occur, and not WHEN it actually
>occurs.
>
>lojbab

But isn't the only difference between them WHEN the event occurs?

Of course you can add other tenses as well:

caca'a : is now actually occurring
capu'i:   now it has actually occurred

puca'a: was then actually occurring
pupu'i:  back then it had actually ocurred

baca'a: will then be actually occurring
bapu'i: by then it will have actually occurred

The only difference between ca'a and pu'i seems to be that
ca'a contains ca and pu'i contains pu, both morphologically
and semantically.

co'o mi'e xorxes