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Rówok has a tripartite telicity system. | Rówok has a tripartite telicity system. | ||
#'''Fully telic''': for actions completed and followed through to the end; expressed with the [[#Telic|telic case]] | |||
#'''Non-telic''': for uncompleted actions, for actions only done in part (shutting the door a little bit); expressed with the [[#Genitive|genitive case]] | |||
#'''Remotely telic''': for actions not even attempted or begun, or for actions given the bare minimum of effort, sometimes with a pejorative sense, i.e. when the speaker wouldn't deign or dare to do something; also used for expressing very small amounts of a direct object; expressed with the [[#Partitive|partitive case]] | |||
In the [[#Negation|negative]] the telicity system is bipartitie, i.e. just non-telic and remotely telic. Furthermore, in [[#Colloquial Rówok|colloquial Rówok]] some affirmative actions with negative senses (stopping as no longer doing, forgetting as no longer remembering, etc.) can show non-telic objects by analogy. | In the [[#Negation|negative]] the telicity system is bipartitie, i.e. just non-telic and remotely telic. Furthermore, in [[#Colloquial Rówok|colloquial Rówok]] some affirmative actions with negative senses (stopping as no longer doing, forgetting as no longer remembering, etc.) can show non-telic objects by analogy. | ||
Examples: | |||
#''ayatyáš'''nak''' éytet''; marathon-S-'''TEL''' run-1-S-PERF; "I ran a marathon (to its completion)" | |||
#''ayatyáš'''raz''' áytat''; marathon-S-'''GEN''' run-1-S-IMPERF; "I ran a marathon (but did not finish it)" | |||
#''ayátyaš'''ab''' áytat''; marathon-S-'''PART''' run-1-S-IMPERF; "I ran a tiny bit of a marathon (a lot of interpretations, from 5k to starting and getting an injury, to "ha, yeah right, me run a marathon?!", all depending on context)" | |||
===Constituent phrases=== | ===Constituent phrases=== | ||