Aspect: aspect
| Values: | Compl | Iter | Suc | Lus | Hab |
Aspect is a
Compl: Completive
The completive aspect is expressed by the particle pa(β).
Examples
- mbaʔe-ʔu-paβ-iré “After (having finished) eating” - thing-ingest-COMPL-POSP
Iter: Iterative
Iterative aspect is indicated by the particle teɲẽ.
Examples
- a-watá-watá teɲẽ “I keep on walking for nothing” - 1.SG-walk-walk for.nothing
Suc: Successive
Successive aspect indicates that the action happens more than once, either the subject or the object has to have a plural reading (one after the other).
Examples
- o-sɨk-sɨk “They arrive(d) one father the other” - 3-arrive-arrive
Lus: Lusive
TZhe lusive aspect aspect indicates that the action is done without a particular intension.
Examples
- a-i-meʔeŋ-ĩ “I gave it (for no reason)” - 1SG-R2-give-LUS
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] [ka] [ky] [la] [mdf] [myu] [myv] [pcm] [qpm] [ru] [say] [sl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [yrl]