tenses to form past inchoative, frequentative past inchoative and future inchoative, all used in Lithuanian. In Russian, inchoatives are regularly derived...

An inchoative verb, sometimes called an "inceptive" verb, shows a process of beginning or becoming. Productive inchoative affixes exist in several languages...

suffixes for verbs, which carry frequentative, momentane, causative, and inchoative aspect meanings. Also, pairs of verbs differing only in transitivity exist...

supposed to have made the rice already"). Stat is an auxiliary for inchoative aspect when combined with the verbal suffix -in: gon stat plein ("gonna start...

occur as imperatives except when used in an inchoative manner. Run! *Know the answer! Know thyself! (inchoative, not stative; archaic) They cannot appear...

cessative aspect or terminative aspect is a grammatical aspect referring to the end of an action or a state. It is the opposite of the inchoative aspect and...

structure. Other languages instead have separate momentane, inchoative, or cessative aspects for those roles, with or without a general perfective. English...

sleeping. Inchoative tenses are not a part of common Lithuanian speech, their use is limited to literary language and even there only past inchoative tense...

are two aspects: the nasugdan (incepted [past/present inchoative]) aspect and the pagasugdan (incepting [future/habitual inchoative]) aspect. They claim...

suffixes, łe- and kowa-. łe- means 'finally', and kowa- marks the inchoative aspect, translated here as 'it starts'. khuhn- is also inflected for the...

(着; 著), which marks the inchoative aspect, or need for change of state, in imperative sentences. Compare the imperfective aspect marker zhe in the section...

in aspectual constructions, mai for continuative aspect ("going on") and atu for inchoative aspect ("coming to be"). The Vanuatu language Lenakel has...

the subframe Being_born. Causative and Inchoative: These two relations mark, for causative- and inchoative-aspect frames, the separate stative frame they...

occurrences. Instead, already and liao are markers of perfective and inchoative aspect, and can refer to real or hypothetical events in the past, present...

and gunga ('to go'), were used with the infinitive to express an inchoative aspect. Similarly, verbs like dwā ('to do') and lēta ('to let') were used...

a stative ("I knew"). The perfective aspect often includes a contextual variation similar to an inchoative aspect or verb, and expresses the beginning...

adjectives. Continuous and progressive aspects Inchoative verb Bhat, D.N.S. (1999). The prominence of tense, aspect and mood. John Benjamins. pp. 53–56....

grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc. Auxiliary verbs usually accompany an infinitive...

and la "she" (compare li "s/he"), the ge- (completive) and eg- (inchoative) aspects, fin- "to finish" and nif- "to begin", and graf- "to write" and farg-...

do-ndɨ-chú 1/PRF-ndɨ-scared "I got really scared" Other affixes express inchoative aspect, instrumental function or purpose. There is also a suffix with the...

do-ndɨ-chú 1/PERF-ndɨ-scared "I got really scared" Other affixes express inchoative aspect, instrumental function or purpose. There is also a suffix with the...

beginning an action, changing into a condition, an inchoative marker. Compare Latin verbs with similar inchoative SC markers nosco " get to know" from gno-sco...

resulted in the Greek perfect. Eventually, by shifting emphasis to the inchoative action, an action that was just started or a state that was just begun...

the pronouns al "he" and la "she", the ge- (completive) and eg- (inchoative) aspects, the verbs fin- "to finish" and nif- "to begin", and the verbs graf-...

the perfect aspect. Another postverbal particle kay marks the inchoative aspect. The two particles can stack together to form an "inchoative perfect", so...

-iss- or -ïss- in much of their conjugation is a reflex of the Latin inchoative infix -isc-/-esc-, but does not retain any aspectual semantics. The third...

entrance into the state. This is called ingressive aorist (also inceptive or inchoative). βασιλεύω 'I am king' (present) — ἐβασίλευσα 'I became king' or 'I ruled'...

many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to encode tense, aspect, mood, and voice. A verb may also agree with the person, gender or number...

corresponding adjective in Swahili and are expressed by means of inchoative verbs. When using inchoative verbs, compound tenses must be used to talk about states...

number by inflection. Instead, these concepts are expressed through adverbs, aspect markers, and particles, or are deduced from the context. Different particles...