TMA is one tough cookie.

Material From Today’s Class

PDFs

• Class Slides
• Sodna-lɛni by Sylvia Sotomayor
• Mariya’s Presentation

Links

• Laundry List of Grammatical Aspects (Some Not Aspects)

Assignments

Reading

• “The State of Valyrian” (Dothraki.com)

Practice

• Take a look at the following TMA categories, and post a possible lexical source for two of them (or of some TMA category I didn’t list), explaining how it could turn into the category in question (note: You will not have heard of some of these. That’s fine. Poke around; see what you can find out!):
  • Progressive (Incomplete) Aspect
  • Perfective (Completed) Aspect
  • Habitual Aspect
  • Passive
  • Applicative
  • Antipassive
  • Intransitive
  • Causative
  • Hodiernal Tense
  • Immediate Future Tense
  • Past Tense
  • Distant Past Tense
  • Weak Obligation (i.e. Should)
  • Strong Obligation (i.e. Must)
  • Second-Hand Evidential
  • Optative

Mastery

• (None Today)

Backburner

• Still looking at MA 6!