Aspect: aspect
| Values: | Imp | Perf | Prog |
Aspect is a feature that specifies the duration of an action in time and whether the action has been completed.
In the Naga-Suansu corpus, aspect is typically a feature of verbs (VERB), but it is also used with the verbal auxiliary (AUX) la “be”, adpositions (ADP), adverbs (ADV) when they act as phrasal verb particles (with the compound:prt dependency), and verbal nouns (NOUN with VerbForm=Vnoun).
Imp: imperfect
The action took / takes / will take some time span and there is no information whether and when it was / will be completed.
Examples
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Leneonan ba baszuela letter rakke. “The girl wrote a letter the her friend.”
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A kehu bag khanika manung le. “I want two bags of millet.”
Perf: perfect
The action has been / will have been completed. In Naga-Suansu, this distinction is expressed via the marker te.
Examples
- Peter lhung fiate. “Peter threw a stone.”
Prog: progressive
Naga-Suansu progressive aspect is constructed via the simultaneous converb ganan after the main verb and the auxiliary la, that takes the relevant Tense marking.
Examples
- Rhui tra ganan laile. “The house is burning.”
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] [naq] [nci] [nmf] [pcm] [ps] [qpm] [ru] [say] [sl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xcl] [yrl]