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durative

NOUN
  1. the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration

How To Use durative In A Sentence

  • Descartes'rational intuition has brought durative effect to whole philosophy later.
  • Despite the fact that it is not used compulsorily (as in English), Dutch has two durative constructions.
  • Figure 6 depicts a basic durative action, load-truck, in which there is no numeric change.
  • Time adverbials introduced by until impose restrictions on the aspectual class of the main clause they combine with: they only combine with durative sentences.
  • We can then take note of an interesting aspectual contrast between *bʰḗr-m̥ 'I carry/carried' with no specific event being conveyed (potentially habitual), and the semelfactivizing quality of the sigmatic form *bʰḗr-s-m̥ 'I have carried (once)', acting essentially like a perfective for inherently durative verbs. Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite
  • It appears that there's a symmetry between objective verbs marked with *-i ( durative, mi-class) and those unmarked by it ( aorist, past) on the one hand, and subjective verbs marked with *-r ( middle) and those without ( hi-class, perfect-stative) on the other. Interesting quirks of a PIE subjective-objective model
  • The former leads to a durative-turned-present and the latter leads to a momentaneous-turned-past. New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective
  • Ever notice that in the "rest of IE" there are some verbs that are "durative" or "present" and some that are "aorist" by default? Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending
  • Structural economic benefits has the characteristic such as sex of macroscopical sex, durative, omnibus, free.
  • Anyways, as per my previous model, there are interesting quirks that seem to automatically surface when I personally take on the goal to finally account for both the mi-class/hi-class contrast in Anatolian with the durative-aorist-perfect system of Core IE dialects. Interesting quirks of a PIE subjective-objective model
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