March 17th, 2018, 11:08 am
Hello,
I asked this question at the relevant subreddit too, but it should be better here.
The particular problem is this: Gajewski's grammar says that dodo indicates the imperfect indicative & the pluperfect indicative, while rere indicates the simple past, the anterior past & certain subjunctive tenses. So in short, dodo is pluperfect & rere is past, right? But Wikipedia claims the opposite: that dodo is the past & rere is the pluperfect. There's an inconsistency.
The wider issue is that notions of tenses, like pluperfect or anterior past vary from language to language, so it's not very helpful to use these expressions without explaining what they mean in the given context. However, I don't seem to be able to find adequate sources. It doesn't make it easier, that Solresol seems to have been mainly based on French with English influence, given that the tense systems of those two languages are wildly different.
I asked this question at the relevant subreddit too, but it should be better here.
The particular problem is this: Gajewski's grammar says that dodo indicates the imperfect indicative & the pluperfect indicative, while rere indicates the simple past, the anterior past & certain subjunctive tenses. So in short, dodo is pluperfect & rere is past, right? But Wikipedia claims the opposite: that dodo is the past & rere is the pluperfect. There's an inconsistency.
The wider issue is that notions of tenses, like pluperfect or anterior past vary from language to language, so it's not very helpful to use these expressions without explaining what they mean in the given context. However, I don't seem to be able to find adequate sources. It doesn't make it easier, that Solresol seems to have been mainly based on French with English influence, given that the tense systems of those two languages are wildly different.
