Aspect
: aspect
Values: | Compl | Iter | Suc | Lus |
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] [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]