Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, related to, or being the verbal aspect that expresses action continuing unbroken for a period of time.
- noun The durative aspect.
- noun A durative verb or verb form.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In philology, that expresses or serves to express continued or continuing action: as, to ‘sit’ and to ‘strike’ are durative verbs, while to ‘strike down’ and to ‘sit down’ are perfective verbs and express completed action.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Continuing; not completed; implying duration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
duration . - adjective
long-lasting - adjective linguistics Of or pertaining to the
aspect of averb that expressescontinuing action;continuative - noun linguistics This aspect, or a verb in this aspect; A continuative.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration
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Examples
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Ever notice that in the "rest of IE" there are some verbs that are "durative" or "present" and some that are "aorist" by default?
Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending 2007
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Returning Veteren casualties are expressing a lack of sufficent medical care and pressure to accept minimal buyouts -- instead of long-term care for durative injuries.
Domestic Policy Issues, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So this is in part why I'm now pursuing a hunch that Arretium could perhaps be a Greek name in the end, namely from Erythrion, a name built on the word erythros 'red' ( durative, mi-class) and those unmarked by it ( aorist, past) on the one hand, and subjective verbs marked with *-r ( middle) and those without ( hi-class, perfect-stative) on the other.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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It appears that there's a symmetry between objective verbs marked with *-i ( durative, mi-class) and those unmarked by it ( aorist, past) on the one hand, and subjective verbs marked with *-r ( middle) and those without ( hi-class, perfect-stative) on the other.
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We can then take note of an interesting aspectual contrast between *bʰḗr-m̥ 'I carry/carried' with no specific event being conveyed (potentially habitual), and the semelfactivizing quality of the sigmatic form *bʰḗr-s-m̥ 'I have carried (once)', acting essentially like a perfective for inherently durative verbs.
Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite 2009
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Jasanoff's theories, the durative-aorist-perfect model, active-stative, and subjective-objective into a single coherent model that explains everything much clearer than what I'm finding in journals and books.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Yet, for all the careful reasoning and evidence behind this clever solution, Jasanoff's scheme seems to give us a curious overabundance of durative 'Narten stems' ie. verbs showing *ē/*e ablaut rather than *e/*∅.
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Jasanoff's theories, the durative-aorist-perfect model, active-stative, and subjective-objective into a single coherent model that explains everything much clearer than what I'm finding in journals and books.
New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective 2009
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The former leads to a durative-turned-present and the latter leads to a momentaneous-turned-past.
New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective 2009
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Anyways, as per my previous model, there are interesting quirks that seem to automatically surface when I personally take on the goal to finally account for both the mi-class/hi-class contrast in Anatolian with the durative-aorist-perfect system of Core IE dialects.
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