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- noun Plural form of
imperfective .
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Another translator may reassign the perfectives, imperfectives, and present participles in altogether different patterns, to form a different arrangement of foreground and background, shading the narrative in a different way.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000
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We oddly expect the total reverse: subjectives yielding imperfectives and objectives yielding perfectives.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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My cursed snag to my subjective-objective theory remains that subjectives are expected to yield atelic verbs (ie. verbs without completed goal) or imperfectives (ie. continuous actions or states)1.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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We oddly expect the total reverse: subjectives yielding imperfectives and objectives yielding perfectives.
New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective 2009
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My cursed snag to my subjective-objective theory remains that subjectives are expected to yield atelic verbs (ie. verbs without completed goal) or imperfectives (ie. continuous actions or states)1.
New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective 2009
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