NOUN
- an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
How To Use continuative In A Sentence
- The verb garadjimbat (with transitive suffix - im and continuative aspect - bat) is from English scratch (and him and about) but means ` to dig. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4
- Maybe, even, he was using the V-ing form to indicate a semantic subtlety - perhaps the continuative sense associated with progressive V-ing forms - that I didn't get.
- Thus, buchong son forms the plural bochang-i (contrast the objective buchong-a); enash grandfather, the plural inash-a; the verb engtyim to sleep forms the continuative ingetym-ad to be sleeping and the past ingetymash. Chapter 4. Form in Language: Grammatical Processes
- If you think about it, the reduplicated form could easily lend a resultative nuance if analysed in this way since the reduplication would have originally stressed the non-stative quality of the verb either "repetitive" in nature as for punctual actions, or "continuative" as for non-momentaneous ones while the *h₂e-set of personal endings would ensure a completive aspect in contrast to the non-completive *mi-set. Rethinking the reduplicated perfect in Indo-European
- One sentence should follow another without abrupt break; and, if continuative of it, adversative to it, or an inference from it, and the hearer needs to be advised of this, let it swing into position on the hinge of a fitting connective. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
- However, one has to be warned that the other words in the list may also function as discourse signallers or continuatives in which case they are part of the textual metafunction of language, and hence cannot be regarded as modal adjuncts.
- Below are lists of the main uses for each of the three continuatives.
- Other continuative particles can be used, so long as they match the definite article attached to the subject.
- The functions of relatives are performed by position, explanatory or continuative clauses being made to precede directly the word they affect. The Soul of the Far East
- These are easily seen as continuative (and I find them relatively easy to understand).