imperfective
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Adjective
imperfective (not comparable)
- Of, relating to or having the properties of the imperfective aspect.
- 2006, Debra Ziegeler, Interfaces with English Aspect: Diachronic and Empirical Studies, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 89,
- In the last chapter, we observed the rise of an imperfective marker in English, the Progressive, as the dominant and surviving member of a wider paradigm of imperfective aspectual functions in Old English, but which were no longer marked in the same way in later stages of the history of English.
- 2008, Constantine R. Campbell, Verbal Aspect and Non-indicative Verbs: Further Soundings in the Greek of the New Testament, Peter Lang, page 65,
- The former is the basic imperfective subjunctive, while the latter is prominent or intensified. […] While the present subjunctive is imperfective in aspect, the perfect subjunctive is imperfective in aspect and spatially proximate.
- 2012, Ronald W. Langacker, Essentials of Cognitive Grammar, Oxford University Press, page 157,
- Consider, then, the result of applying these tense morphemes to a perfective or an imperfective verb.
- 2006, Debra Ziegeler, Interfaces with English Aspect: Diachronic and Empirical Studies, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 89,
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Noun
imperfective (plural imperfectives)
- The imperfective aspect; a verb having this aspect.
- 2005, Jane H. Hill, A Grammar of Cupeño, University of California Press, page 132,
- Examples of past imperfectives are shown in (42).
- 2010, Viktoria Hasko, Renee Perelmutter, Introduction: Verbs of motion in Slavic languages: Paths for exploration, Viktoria Hasko, Renee Perelmutter (editors), New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 5,
- These putative indeterminate imperfectives are innovative in form precisely because they add a manner meaning to the range of lexical meanings available to Proto-Slavic motion verbs.
- 2012, Ronald W. Langacker, Essentials of Cognitive Grammar, Oxford University Press, page 157,
- Past imperfectives are also unproblematic because imperfectives are mass-like in nature, hence contractible.
- 2005, Jane H. Hill, A Grammar of Cupeño, University of California Press, page 132,
Translations
imperfective aspect; verb with this aspect — see also imperfective aspect
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French
Adjective
imperfective