Abstract
Final clauses introduced by na after verbs of motion may carry only perfective aspect even in habitual contexts in past or present main clauses because motions and destinations are in a one-one relation such that each motion has one goal. The same sentences placed in the future, imperativized or embedded under prospective verbs may take only imperfective na complements in habitual contexts because futurity renders verbs of motion implicative. The final conjunction ja na introduces no aspectual restrictions as it is equivalent to ‘because x wants’ and acts of wanting and events wanted do not necessarily possess biuniqueness. This is related to the tendency of ‘go’ (implicative, biunique) and ‘want’ (nonimplicative, nonbiunique) to develop in many languages into markers of ‘future’ (implicative, nonbiunique).
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