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'''Stative verbs''' describe an ongoing state or characteristic of the subject, '''atelic verbs''' describe actions that have no natural end, and '''telic verbs''' describe action that does have a natural or logical endpoint. | '''Stative verbs''' describe an ongoing state or characteristic of the subject, '''atelic verbs''' describe actions that have no natural end, and '''telic verbs''' describe action that does have a natural or logical endpoint. | ||
A series of ''classifiers'' are used to derive aspects outside a verb's class. These are attached before the subject marker, but after the object marker. For example, the classier ''*-l-'' can be added to the class II verb ''*misu'' ('to see'), whose reduplicated root carries an atelic aspect, to create ''*-l-misu'' ('to watch'); e.g. ''*wədəī ilt-misu'' ('I watch the dance'). | |||
== Development == | == Development == |
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