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Participles (Morphological Aspects of)
(1,969 words)
Abstract Participles are verbal forms that can have aspect but not tense, and can have direct and indirect objects. Their stem morphology is verbal, but their inflectional morphology is nominal, and they function syntactically as either adjectives or nouns. There is an extraordinary amount of variation of participia…
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2013-11-01
Definiteness/Definite Article
(1,905 words)
Abstract Definiteness is a quasi-universal phenomenon of linguistic usage, a by-product of…
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2013-11-01
Gnomic Aorist
(552 words)
Abstract The Greek gnomic aorist is a perfective past tense that is used to represent a generic fact, habitual truth, or habitual action. A gnomic form (the in…
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2013-11-01
Inchoatives/Inceptives
(817 words)
Abstract Inchoatives and Inceptives are two slightly different aspectual categories both of which represent the onset of an event. An Inchoative indicates a change of state:
the plane landed (and remained on the ground),
the sun rose/set (daylight and darkness). An Inceptive results in a new activity:
…
Date:
2013-11-01
Aspect (and Tense)
(1,884 words)
Abstract In the 20th century, it was realized that what had for generations been called tense differences, were very often aspectual differences. The same temporal event can in fact be given two different aspectual representations:
I’ve seen that film; I saw it last week. Scholarly investigations of Latin and Greek led to the conclusions, based on the morphological contrasts, that the six forms of the Latin Indicative showed three tenses and two aspects, whereas the six forms of the Ancient Gr…
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2013-11-01
