http://glottopedia.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=DavidKGray 2026-04-12T21:47:59Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.34.2 http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Perfective&diff=5362 2008-02-01T11:57:59Z

<p>DavidKGray: </p> <hr /> <div>If a language has a perfective aspect in its verbs system, then the verb form describes the whole action, beginning, middle and end in one go. This means that the perfective describes a complete situation, but it is not 'completed', according to Comrie, 'The use of &quot;completed&quot;... puts too much emphasis on the termination of the situation, whereas the use of the perfective puts no more emphasis, necessarily, on the end of the situation than on any other part of the situation.' (Comrie, ''Aspect'', 18)</div>

DavidKGray http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Perfective&diff=5361 2008-02-01T11:57:40Z

<p>DavidKGray: Perfective denotes a complete action</p> <hr /> <div>If a language has a perfective aspect in its verbs system, then the verb form describes the whole action, beginning, middle and end in one go. This means that the perfective describes a complete situation, but it is no 'completed', according to Comrie, 'The use of &quot;completed&quot;... puts too much emphasis on the termination of the situation, whereas the use of the perfective puts no more emphasis, necessarily, on the end of the situation than on any other part of the situation.' (Comrie, ''Aspect'', 18)</div>

DavidKGray http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Evidentiality&diff=4937 2007-12-14T14:56:12Z

<p>DavidKGray: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Evidentiality''' is a way of marking [[epistemic modality]], i.e. how we know something is true. Some languages grammaticise evidentiality (mark it in their verb system).<br /> <br /> ===Example===<br /> Turkmen, for example, has four levels of evidentiality - direct, inferred, assumed, and reported. These are marked in the following way:<br /> <br /> ''al-dy'' 's/he took'; <br /> ''al-ypdyr'' 's/he took (but I didn't see it)'; <br /> ''alan eken'' 's/he apparently took'; <br /> ''al-anmyş'' 'it is rumoured that s/he took'. <br /> <br /> It is important to use these correctly, otherwise the wrong impression can be conveyed.<br /> <br /> ===Other languages===<br /> German [[Evidenzialität]]<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Modality]]</div>

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