The perfective is the ordinary style of an honest narrative. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Wilderness] Reference
Verbs lacking objects tend to convey a perfective sense1. From Wordnik.com. [A ramble about the Nostratic pronominal system, part 2] Reference
On the contrary, I think perfective -ce is necessary in amce. From Wordnik.com. [Disproving a particular translation of TLE 193 once and for all] Reference
An intensive perfective shift is pretty intuitive, semantically speaking. From Wordnik.com. [Confused about PIE's intensive particle *ge] Reference
Glen, I think this is a very interesting idea regarding the Etruscan perfective ending. From Wordnik.com. [Confused about PIE's intensive particle *ge] Reference
Latin obiit Etruscan an lupuce perfective, "he/she has passed on, he/she has met death". From Wordnik.com. [Death and euphemisms in Etruria] Reference
From the perfective “I made a salad,” it follows that at some point there was a salad. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Reason and the Structure of Actions] Reference
Slavic languages have the perfective and the imperfective, not to mention so-called verbs of motion. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE DIFFICULTY OF JAPANESE.] Reference
The word canθis in turn is probably related to canθce, a verb inflected in the perfective in TLE 99. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
I can account for how the system evolves from a transitive-intransitive one to an imperfective-perfective one. From Wordnik.com. [Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person] Reference
For example, Mr. Nabokov wants to insist that pochuya (v) is a perfective form to be translated as upon sensing. From Wordnik.com. [Translating Pushkin] Reference
So naturally then, a specialized mediopassive ending was formed out of the originally general perfective ending. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
So let's give the "intransitivish" verbs an inherent perfective nuance and "transitivish" verbs a non-perfective one. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending] Reference
Both the non-continuous and punctive would be expressed in Mandarin with the perfective particle le 了 placed after the verb. From Wordnik.com. [The active-stative mess] Reference
Without this marker, the verb must have described an event that was past, perfective, uncertain, hypothetical and/or non-existent. From Wordnik.com. [The headache of the Indo-European subjunctive] Reference
The use of perfective endings was a natural consequence of the fact that these endings marked largely intransitive actions to begin with. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
The action of "being off to Hades" is strictly perfective because one is describing the singular, initial moment of death, not the state. From Wordnik.com. [Disproving a particular translation of TLE 193 once and for all] Reference
As good is what is perfective of us given the natures that we have (ST Ia 5, 1), the good and these various goods have their status as such naturally. From Wordnik.com. [The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics] Reference
There is a distinction between perfective and imperfective verbs but I found that not too mind-bending (or at least easier than the nouns and adjectives). From Wordnik.com. [I'm not revealing the answer I got...] Reference
Not corruptive, privative, or destructive to the power of classical presbyteries, or single congregations; but rather perfective and conservative thereunto. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference
Meanwhile, most other branches end up using the h2e-conjugation strictly for the perfective because... it already was being used as a perfective from the beginning anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending] Reference
Rather, the word may simply be a compound verb fler-eθar-, syncopated to flerθr- here, and composed of fler "gift" and eθar- "to receive" plus perfective preterite -ce. From Wordnik.com. [Etruscan fler, flere and fleres] Reference
And it is not a perfective dissolution, it is a destructive dissolution; for this dissolution ends it: and it lies at the door of us all, and every day leads us towards it. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
So then passive good is, as was said, either conservative or perfective. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
The duty consists of two parts, the one preparatory, the other perfective. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
It is comprehensive of the whole man, and it is comprehensive of all that can be imagined to be the perfective good of man. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference
Himself -- then the lower is sanctified and sustained by the higher, and each feeling is perfective of the other (Ro 5: 11). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
( "Brutus has killed Caesar") is present in time and perfective in aspect; the past tense ( "Brutus killed Caesar") is past in time and simple in aspect; and so on. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3] Reference
(simple, perfective, imperfective), and person (first, second, and third person in singular and plural numbers). From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
If I can use the perfective, the imperfective, and the gerundive as an adjective (= 1, 2, and en Español. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
The mediopassive-perfective connection. From Wordnik.com. [Interesting quirks of a PIE subjective-objective model] Reference
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