• In linguistics, semelfactives are a type of aktionsart or lexical aspect, which is a property of verbs and other predicates representing the temporal...
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  • his discussion of lexical aspect, Bernard Comrie included the category semelfactive or punctual events such as "sneeze". His divisions of the categories...
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  • In linguistics, the iterative aspect (abbreviated ITER), also called "semelfactive", "event-internal pluractionality", or "multiplicative", is a grammatical...
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  • aspects that indicate the number of times an event occurs, such as the semelfactive aspect, the iterative aspect, etc. For that use of the term, see "Grammatical...
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    the lexical semantics of the root verb: telic and non-telic actions, semelfactives, durative and non-durative, punctual, etc. There are selectional restrictions...
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  • ("I painted a picture"), achievements ("I bought"), and punctual, or semelfactive, events ("I sneezed"). These distinctions are often relevant syntactically...
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    common aspects are conclusive, momentaneous, neuter, onomatopoetic, and semelfactive. The morpheme attached to the root verb can also change depending on...
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  • Usitative- iterative Optative Momentaneous géésh gizh gish gish géésh Continuative gizh gizh gish gish gizh Semelfactive gish gish gish gish gish/géésh...
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  • prefix, as in yishcha "I'm crying." with either a yi- transitional or yi- semelfactive prefix in position 6 (and no prefix in position 7). The perfective indicates...
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  • reinfect, remanufacture, resurface, reunification, sacrifice, scientific, semelfactive, suboffice, subprefect, suffice, sufficiency, sufficient, superficial...
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    person plural object *ʔaˑmá-ya-l see *kád-, *káˑd- seed * ?isóˑ, *ʔisóy semelfactive *-ki- sentence connective (1) *-pʰila sentence connective (2) *-pʰi sentence...
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  • laryngeal class IX -nēmi verbs a few -n verbs 4th weak (fientive) class II (semelfactive -nǫ- verbs) class B IV class VI no? nu-suffix class V, VIII -nūmi verbs...
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    Suffixes I — Plural Agent II — Reduplication III — Essive, Terrestrial IV — Semelfactive, Inceptive, Plural Act, Plural Movement Middle Group Suffixes Va — Directionals...
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  • proficient, profit, profiteer, reinfect, remanufacture, resurface, sacrifice, semelfactive, subprefect, subprefecture, subsurface, suffice, sufficiency, sufficient...
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  • secondhand imperative) SEJ sejunct (opposite of conjunct) SEM SMLF, SEMEL semelfactive aspect ('once') SEM special evaluative marker SEN SNS, SENS, SENS.EV...
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    extends' + {-s} 'suffix indicating concentration, intensity' + {-ki} 'semelfactive' + {-·} 'stative mode' ba·q’ál 'finish talking, going to school, or job...
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    expanded the list of categories to reflect resultant situations, adding semelfactives and complex predicates–active accomplishments and causatives." Cover...
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  • походила по квартире и наконец решила уйти. resultative с- Completed semelfactive movement in opposite directions, there and back. *only formed with multidirectional...
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    action Suffix Position 6 -ki- inceptive -kp- plural figure, source -ks- semelfactive Suffix Position 7 -mp- plural source -ćx- to away Suffix Position 8 -cʹr-...
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  • reinfect, remanufacture, resurface, reunification, sacrifice, scientific, semelfactive, suboffice, subprefect, suffice, sufficiency, sufficient, superficial...
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  • with different aspects, such as momentaneous, continuative, repetitive, semelfactive, etc. For example, a stem can be momentaneous imperfective, momentaneous...
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