by location of time i believe rolf means absolute past, present, future. as to 
comrie, i am not
sure: maybe just "grammaticalization of temporal information". i did not have 
direct access to his books on tense and aspect. i too understand location of 
time in this spirit.

the next question is: how to define the relevant temporal information 
grammaticalized in BH; this is what i called "type of time"

recall that grammaticalization is usually defined as a process that shifts 
semantic values from the lexical to the grammatical, e.g. english will shift 
from "verb: want" to "pre-verbal auxiliary word indicating future tense". 
actually, this definition is also not precise: grammaticalization can also 
change one grammatical value in another. e.g. 
in the latin languages the passive became participle.

as to "quality of time", i am not sure what you are speaking about.

nir cohen

On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 01:39:34 -0400, Isaac Fried wrote
> Not clear to me how "location of time" is supposed to be grammaticalized also 
> for "type of time" (and why not also quality of time). 
> 
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:53 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:
> if tense is the grammaticalized location of time, then the question is, what 
> type of time is being grammaticalized in BH

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