continuative

Then a reduplicated form developed out of this in MIE *Ca-CáC- to express an action that was continuative at some point but was thereafter completed.

Rethinking the reduplicated perfect in Indo-European 2008

Then a reduplicated form developed out of this in MIE *Ca-CáC- to express an action that was continuative at some point but was thereafter completed.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

If you think about it, the reduplicated form could easily lend a resultative nuance if analysed in this way since the reduplication would have originally stressed the non-stative quality of the verb either "repetitive" in nature as for punctual actions, or "continuative" as for non-momentaneous ones while the *h₂e-set of personal endings would ensure a completive aspect in contrast to the non-completive *mi-set.

Rethinking the reduplicated perfect in Indo-European 2008

If you think about it, the reduplicated form could easily lend a resultative nuance if analysed in this way since the reduplication would have originally stressed the non-stative quality of the verb either "repetitive" in nature as for punctual actions, or "continuative" as for non-momentaneous ones while the *h₂e-set of personal endings would ensure a completive aspect in contrast to the non-completive *mi-set.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

One sentence should follow another without abrupt break; and, if continuative of it, adversative to it, or an inference from it, and the hearer needs to be advised of this, let it swing into position on the hinge of a fitting connective.

Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

Our “cry” is indefinite as to aspect, “be crying” is durative, “cry out” is momentaneous, “burst into tears” is inceptive, “keep crying” is continuative, “start in crying” is durative-inceptive, “cry now and again” is iterative, “cry out every now and then” or “cry in fits and starts” is momentaneous-iterative.

Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts 1921

Thus, buchong “son” forms the plural bochang-i (contrast the objective buchong-a); enash “grandfather, ” the plural inash-a; the verb engtyim “to sleep” forms the continuative ingetym-ad “to be sleeping” and the past ingetymash.

Chapter 4. Form in Language: Grammatical Processes 1921

The functions of relatives are performed by position, explanatory or continuative clauses being made to precede directly the word they affect.

The Soul of the Far East Percival Lowell 1885

The verb garadjimbat (with transitive suffix - im and continuative aspect - bat) is from English scratch (and him and about) but means ` to dig. '

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 4 1981

Scarcely had these precautionary measures of safety been completed, when a shrill cry, as if by a child inside the vehicle, was heard, loud and continuative, which, after the lapse of some minutes, broke out into the urgent and reiterated exclamation of -- "Let me out!

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823