Aspect: aspect
| Values: | Cont | Compl | Iter |
Aspect shows the internal temporal structure of a situation.
Cont: Continuative
The continuative aspect expresses imperfectivity not occasioned by habit.
The morpheme -o appears after a final consonant or vowel, only with a 3rd person subject.
The morpheme -ɲ (after a vowel) or -iɲ (after a consonant) marks the continuative aspect of action or state predicates whose subject is a 1st or 2nd person.
Examples
- oanõ oibao kiʔi “He is waiting for his pet now.”
- dadʒaʔodʒiɲ “I am not crying.”
- ezozopodʒiɲ “They feed me.”
Compl: Completive
The completive aspect indicates that the action has been completely performed by all referents of the subject of an intransitive verb or on all possible referents of the object of a transitive verb.
Examples
- ohopaŋ “They all left.”
- okuwapa omanõ mãʔẽ “He knows all the dead.”
Iter: Iterative
The iterative aspect expresses the repetition of an event observable on one single occasion. In Tekó, the iterative aspect is represented by the morpheme -eʔe (after a consonant) and -ʔe (after a vowel).
Examples
- ohoʔe “He goes back (He goes and goes again).”
- oiɲuŋbanam, opukudʒ opukudʒeʔe “When she has finished putting them on, she moved, she moved again.”
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] [cs] [el] [eme] [ga] [gn] [gub] [hu] [hy] [hyw] [jaa] [ky] [la] [mdf] [myu] [myv] [pcm] [qpm] [ru] [say] [sl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [yrl]