[tied] Re: Ablaut, hi-conjugation, stress alternation, etc

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

>
> I think a part of the problem we are having is with your
>understanding of what the English equivalent phrase means.
>
> I have no problem believing that Russian perfectives have no

present; and certainly, proc^itayu is perfective.

>
> But I do have a problem with believing that English 'I shall read'

is punctual.

>
> Could you furnish a sentence and a context in which it would be

punctual?

> Patrick

In my vernacular I am visualizing protchitaio as "jag får läst brevet"

Can't you (at a pitch) visualize it as something like "(When)I get
that letter read (I will answer him)"; or in a similar sentence:
"I shall get that paper written (and then I can have a holyday)".

Perhaps not very current English, but visualizsble.

Lars