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

>
> If someone said to me:
> "I shall read the paper, and then I can have a holiday."
> my first question would be:
> "How long do you think it will take?"
> That suggests to me durative rather than punctual.

It suggests punctual, since that someone by implication will pass
from a state of not having read the paper to one of having read the
paper which latter state is apparently a precondition for his taking a
holiday which means "shall read" is aspectually punctual, at least
within the implicitly chosen universe if discourse, and that your
question is conversation.


Torsten