selba

When using tenses, the CLL describes a way to use termsets to specify an exact distance. For example, mi klama be'a nu'i zo'e la'u lo minli be li mu gives an exact distance from the speaker, indicating the walking occurred five miles north. This has several usability issues. First, it requires the use of two places, which means you must specify both the anchor point and the measure. Second, it requires the use of the klani modal, which is both not particularly well-specified and adds additional verbosity in expressing exact distances.

In zantufa and some other dialects, all the tenses are treated in the same way as BAI. BAI may be used with SE in order to gain access to additional meanings with a connected idea.

These two behaviors may be combined to great effect. When speaking selba, all BAI and tenses are permitted to include a termset, which will fill places sequentially, and may be tagged with FA to jump to specific places within the structure. Additionally, tenses prefixed with SE will be converted to have places beyond the first be used without requiring a termset. This extension requires that a place structure be defined systematically for tenses. These structures are outlined below.

PU/FAhA1-2

Tenses which specify a direction all follow this pattern:

x1 is the tagged point for an imaginary journey, traveling in [direction] for a distance of x2

This allows an exact distance to be specified. For example, mi klama sebe'a lo minli be li mu has the same meaning as the first example sentence in this article.

ZI/VA

Tenses which specify a subjective distance do not provide a way to specify an exact distance, for that, use BA and similar. These tenses follow this pattern:

x1 is the tagged point for an imaginary journey, traveling [subjective distance], with standard of subjective size x2

This allows context for perceived distance to be provided. mi klama sevu tu'a lonu cadzu indicates that the going was done very far from the speaker's location, in the context of what is far for walking.

ZEhA/VEhA

Tenses which specify an interval or area follow this pattern:

x1 is the tagged point for an imaginary journey, spreading out in [subjective sized area] with a volume/area/size x2, with standard of subjective size x3

This allows for both perceived size and actual value to be provided. mi klama seve'a lo pitki'otre be li re indicates the going was all done within a two square kilometer area of the speaker.

ZAhO/FAhA3-4

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