imperfective

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of, relating to or having the properties of the imperfective aspect.

   “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.”

2. isim The imperfective aspect; a verb having this aspect.

   “Examples of past imperfectives are shown in (42).”