Ever notice that in the "rest of IE" there are some verbs that are "durative" or "present" and some that are "aorist" by default?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending] Reference

However, it uses reduplication like the derived? durative presents.    From Wordnik.com.  [How old is the reduplicated perfect in Indo-European?] Reference

Like in Greek they're simply there to indicate the present/durative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending] Reference

The former leads to a durative-turned-present and the latter leads to a momentaneous-turned-past.    From Wordnik.com.  [New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Policy Issues, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective] Reference

Now, let's also say for kicks that verbs could originally switch back and forth between the two conjugations similar to how you can convert a durative to an aorist or vice versa; but not quite like in Anatolian, afaik.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending] Reference

However, I came to realize that if, for whatever reason, the e-reduplication seen in the eventual perfect forms were not as ancient as the i-reduplicated forms seen in the durative present, then perhaps we could suggest something simpler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interesting quirks of a PIE subjective-objective model] Reference

The participle then expresses the durative "is planning vengeance" or "is about to take vengeance.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Ba'ah, with the accent on the last syllable, is the feminine form of the durative participle -- "is coming.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

The participle mishtachawim is durative -- "they were making obeisance," that is, they were doing it repeatedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Despite his great grief Jacob "kept still" -- the perfect with waw conversive makes a durative imperfect (K.S. 367 i).    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

So for the present he was "gazing at her by himself" mishta'eh, Hithpael participle, durative, from the verb sha'ah a "by-form" of sha'ah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

A regular and continuous mode of operation now begins, as the durative imperfect (ya'aleh) indicates, (G.K. 107b; K.S. 157; yaktul durans).    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Yet as soon as we give the “durative” notion of being red an inceptive or transitional turn, we can avoid the parallel form “it becomes red, it turns red” and say “it reddens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts] Reference

What men observed as they saw him approaching was that "he was limping because of his thigh" (tsolea ', durative participle, yet saying nothing as to whether the infirmity continued long thereafter).    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

By way of making the account picturesque the writer tells us that the servant was "still standing" -- we have inserted the "still" in order to express more distinctly the idea of the durative participle 'omedh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts] Reference

'achattennah is durative -- "I used to make good.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Its function “is to translate the real into the terms of the ideal, the functional into terms of the durative and transcendental” (Thespis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

'mumbling' vuuu 'wind blowing', kpà 'cluck' examples event structure sign structure complex path trisyllabic + reduplicated punctual closed syllable durative open syllable + long vowel distributed/repeated reduplicated unitary monosyllabic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

One form being durative, the other punctual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

It has a durative or contrstive sense most often.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: CANADIAN EH.] Reference

‣ objective eventive → durative present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

It would be interesting to show what are the most typical noun-forming and verb-forming elements of group II; how variously nouns may be classified (by gender; personal and non-personal; animate and inanimate; by form; common and proper); how the concept of number is elaborated (singular and plural; singular, dual, and plural; singular, dual, trial, and plural; single, distributive, and collective); what tense distinctions may be made in verb or noun (the “past, ” for instance, may be an indefinite past, immediate, remote, mythical, completed, prior); how delicately certain languages have developed the idea of “aspect”22 (momentaneous, durative, continuative, inceptive, cessative, durative-inceptive, iterative, momentaneous-iterative, durative-iterative, resultative, and still others); what modalities may be recognized (indicative, imperative, potential, dubitative, optative, negative, and a host of others23); what distinctions of person are possible (is “we, ” for instance, conceived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts] Reference