Aspect: Aspect
| Values: | Prog | IncProg | Iter | Inc |
Prog Progressive
Prog: Prog
The progressive aspect is marked by the suffix -nu
Example
- boenure imi “I am Bororo”
Inc: Incipient
The incipient aspect is coded by the suffix -gody and indicates that an action starts to happen.
Example
- Iroiwa bokwagodyre awy mygyre ikanaora kejeboe tabo imi “It’s becoming impossible to carry this sitting on my shoulder”
IncProg Incipient progressive
IncProg: IncProg
Incipient progressive is a combination of the incipient aspect (gody) with the progressive aspect (nu) indicates that an event is beginning to happen.
Example
- Ikodo torigodynure imi “My basket is starting to be(come) heavy”
Iter Iterative
Iter: Iter
The iterative aspect, indicating that the event frequently happens is coded by the reduplication of the predicate.
Example
- Boere boe tugutugu woe imi “People always plant here”
Imi Imminent
Diffs
Prague Dependency Treebank
The PDT tagset does not distinguish Ptan from Plur and Coll from Sing,
therefore this distinction is not being made in the converted data.
Aspect in other languages: [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [bor] [cs] [el] [eme] [ga] [gn] [gub] [ha] [hu] [hy] [hyw] [jaa] [ka] [ky] [la] [mdf] [myu] [myv] [nci] [pcm] [qpm] [ru] [say] [sl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [yrl]