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  • An inchoative verb, sometimes called an "inceptive" verb, shows a process of beginning or becoming. Productive inchoative affixes exist in several languages...
    11 KB (1,359 words) - 13:57, 29 September 2022
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    the imperfect and perfect modes Imperfect inceptive Perfective inceptive Neuter - applicable to neuter verbs, and "to be" neuter Aspect conveys information...
    28 KB (2,734 words) - 02:09, 28 August 2024
  • linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun it...
    25 KB (3,308 words) - 23:39, 18 November 2024
  • verb, vector verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb and semantically weak verb. While light verbs are similar to auxiliary verbs regarding their...
    23 KB (2,435 words) - 20:56, 20 August 2024
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    diversity in Turkic inceptive constructions", Johannes Gutenberg University, p. 270 Julian Rentzsch, "Uniformity and diversity in Turkic inceptive constructions"...
    10 KB (880 words) - 22:14, 1 September 2024
  • closing the glottis. Other verbs (such as "look at", "wash the dishes", "yell", "flirt") are inflected into the unrealized inceptive aspect similarly: The...
    65 KB (8,142 words) - 22:21, 1 June 2024
  • used to form verbs from both nouns and adjectives.) Deverbal formations included causative ("I had someone do something"), iterative/inceptive ("I did something...
    82 KB (7,772 words) - 15:18, 23 August 2024
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    compound verb or complex predicate is a multi-word compound that functions as a single verb. One component of the compound is a light verb or vector...
    20 KB (2,805 words) - 15:33, 25 October 2024
  • justification for this change is that actions of stative verbs generally have an implied prior inception. An example of this is the typical and widespread PIE...
    29 KB (2,932 words) - 18:29, 22 October 2024
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    Chinese grammar (redirect from Chinese verb)
    distinguished from the verb suffix le (了) discussed in the Aspects section. Whereas the sentence-final particle is sometimes described as an inceptive or as a marker...
    82 KB (10,860 words) - 09:02, 16 November 2024
  • Inchoative aspect (redirect from Inceptive)
    Inchoative aspect (abbreviated inch or incho), also known as inceptive, is a grammatical aspect, referring to the beginning of a state. It can be found...
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    Eyak language (section Verbs)
    imperfective. Verbs may be inceptive, 'active,' or 'neuter', such that the possibilities are as follows: Morphemes in prefix position 2 modify the inceptive imperfective;...
    27 KB (2,613 words) - 21:20, 7 October 2024
  • The inceptive reduplication of Comox is closely tied to the marking of control. In words like tih 'big', -VC reduplicates to create the inceptive form...
    25 KB (2,910 words) - 18:31, 19 September 2024
  • with the verb ‘give’) inceptive -le (homophonous with the verb ‘come’) conative -so resultative/stative -de iterative -dete ~ -ia Bauzi verbs that have...
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    Voice relations Active Passive Reflexive Reciprocal Aspect Imperfective Inceptive Repetitive Continuative Habitual Inchoative Perfective In Keres, the verbal...
    50 KB (3,460 words) - 02:00, 7 October 2024
  • the unrealized inceptive aspect ('just about to X'), illustrated here with the verb 'to tell'. 'To tell' is an indexical (directional) verb, where the index...
    69 KB (9,962 words) - 16:54, 11 October 2024
  • Navajo grammar (redirect from Navajo verbs)
    Navajo is a "verb-heavy" language – it has a great preponderance of verbs but relatively few nouns. In addition to verbs and nouns, Navajo has other elements...
    44 KB (4,317 words) - 19:08, 29 April 2024
  • complex verbs formed by the combinations of noun/adjective and a verb. Complex verbs are of two types: transitive and intransitive. The transitive verbs are...
    86 KB (5,150 words) - 01:11, 3 September 2024
  • pronouns INAL:inalienable possession ICP:inceptive verb stem INCPC:inceptive completive aspectual marker te INCPI:inceptive inchoative aspectual marker se IPFV:imperfective...
    25 KB (3,130 words) - 18:15, 20 June 2024
  • verb "come") following the verb, or an "inceptive" marker (derived from the verb "leave") preceding the verb. The reference system makes a 10-way distinction...
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