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* Develop new derivational and/or inflectional suffixes from other Proto-Slavic verbs, especially monosyllabic verbs--> | * Develop new derivational and/or inflectional suffixes from other Proto-Slavic verbs, especially monosyllabic verbs--> | ||
====Features==== | ====Features==== | ||
* Lexical aspect is | * Lexical aspect is highly regularized. | ||
* Most verbs regularly form the perfective and habitual from the imperfective (via the prefix ''po-'' and the suffix ''-va-'' respectively). | |||
* Verbs that are inherently perfective form the imperfective via the ''-va-'' suffix appended to the perfective form. This applies to most prefixed verbs. | |||
* Note: The ''-va-'' suffix is appended after the theme vowel, but a preceding ''-a-'' becomes ''-e-''. | |||
* A secondary imperfective can be formed from any base verb (whether imperfective or perfective) by combining the prefix ''po-'' and the suffix ''-va-''. This gives a meaning of "to be doing X for a period of time". | |||
* Aspectual counterparts essentially behave as tense/aspect counterparts of a single verb. | |||
va-''. This | |||
====''a''-stems==== | ====''a''-stems==== | ||