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Languages F. R.
Palmer (2001) Mood and
Modality Guillaume Jacques (2024)
Celerative: the
encoding of
speed in
verbal morphology Joan Bybee,
Revere Perkins...
- ****ociated motion, aspect, benefactive, and
various unusual categories such as
celerative -imya 'quickly' as in (1) (grammaticalized from the verb imya 'run'),...
- a rich
verbal morphology,
which can
encode unusual categories such as
celerative -imya 'quickly',
grammaticalized from the verb imya 'run' as in (1), periodic...
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systems can also
encode speed, and
these markers can then
evolve into
celerative markers exclusively encoding speed.
Guillaume (2006, 2008, 2009). Jacques...
- ‘It
rained all
night long.’
Among the
verbal suffixes, we also find a
celerative -wisha
encoding quick speed. Iji-wisha-kwe drink-CELER-IMP:SG e-na! DUMMY-water...
