| The imperfective aspect is used in a variety of circumstances where it is felt to imply some specific aspect of on-going activity. |
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| It has something that is similar, but it is really a distinction between imperfective and perfective aspect. |
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| Different kinds of complements and modifiers can often coerce a perfective or an imperfective reading. |
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| Particularly puzzling can be perfective verbs in the imperfect and imperfective ones in the aorist. |
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| The perfective aspect is usually formed from the imperfective either by prefixation or by suffixation. |
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| Much of complexity in the use of tense and aspect in English derives from the fact that the categories of perfective and imperfective allow a number of subcategories. |
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| The cognitive origin is taken to be the basic linguistic distinction between imperfective and perfective aspects of verbs, which describe uncompleted and completed actions. |
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| I will claim that past tense in the case of the experiential imperfective actually behaves like a perfect, i.e. the assertion time is located after the event time. |
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| In Bulgarian, the present indicative tense of imperfective verbs is used in a very similar way to the present indicative in English. |
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| The present tense of the Macedonian language is made of the imperfective verbs. |
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| In other words, being a tenseless participle, the imperfective participles do not involve two possibilities discussed in. |
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| Often, presence of a morpheme denotes the perfective aspect and absence of that same sound the imperfective aspect. |
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| However, in Bhujel the stative verbs can be combined with grammatical imperfective aspect and it yields a durative interpretation as in. |
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| It would be extremely interesting to find out how these children mix both perfective and imperfective aspect in narratives. |
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| Although these correspond morphologically to the weak stem of the perfect, semantically they are much closer to an imperfective present stem. |
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| The past contrasts perfective and imperfective aspect, and some verbs retain such a contrast in the present. |
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| In the Slavic languages, verbs are intrinsically perfective or imperfective. |
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| The future tense of perfective verbs is formed in the same way as the present tense of imperfective verbs. |
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| The most fundamental aspectual distinction, represented in many languages, is between perfective aspect and imperfective aspect. |
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| In Slavic languages, a given verb is, in itself, either perfective or imperfective. |
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| Perfective, imperfective negation, simultaneous and habitual are four aspects markers in Wuvulu language. |
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| This example below shows these two imperfective aspect markers giving different meanings to similar sentences. |
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| Chapter 8 offers a reexamination of the English progressive, with special attention devoted to the imperfective paradox. |
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| The case report was written with verbs in either the imperfective or perfective form. |
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| As for the verbs in the present, it is noteworthy that this tense allows only imperfective aspect. |
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| Verbs are of imperfective or perfective aspect, often occurring in pairs. |
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| But the imperfective is relatively 'awkward,' in both English and German. |
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| On the semantic side, we have seen that the reduplicated i-stems behave like imperfective present participles, very often with iterative, intensive, or habitual semantics. |
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| The imperfective clitics index one of the core arguments, usually the nominative subject, and follow the rightmost element in a syntactic structure larger than the word. |
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| While the system for marking the imperfective aspect is complex and highly developed, it is unclear if Torau marks the perfective and neutral viewpoints. |
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| Modern Romance languages merge the concepts of aspect and tense but consistently distinguish perfective and imperfective aspects in the past tense. |
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| One familiar proposal is that process verbs in the progressive or imperfective form exhibit perfective entailments that accomplishment verbs do not. |
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| Consequently each language contains many pairs of verbs, corresponding to each other in meaning, except that one expresses perfective aspect and the other imperfective. |
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| This is the key distinction between the imperfective and perfective. |
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