- In linguistics,
semelfactives are a type of
aktionsart or
lexical aspect,
which is a
property of
verbs and
other predicates representing the temporal...
- In linguistics, the
iterative aspect (abbreviated ITER), also
called "
semelfactive", "event-internal pluractionality", or "multiplicative", is a grammatical...
- his
discussion of
lexical aspect,
Bernard Comrie included the
category semelfactive or
punctual events such as "sneeze". His
divisions of the categories...
-
aspects that
indicate the
number of
times an
event occurs, such as the
semelfactive aspect, the
iterative aspect, etc. For that use of the term, see "Grammatical...
- the
lexical semantics of the root verb:
telic and non-telic actions,
semelfactives,
durative and non-durative, punctual, etc.
There are
selectional restrictions...
- ("I
painted a picture"),
achievements ("I bought"), and punctual, or
semelfactive,
events ("I sneezed").
These distinctions are
often relevant syntactically...
- prefix, as in
yishcha "I'm crying." with
either a yi-
transitional or yi-
semelfactive prefix in
position 6 (and no
prefix in
position 7). The
perfective indicates...
- reinfect, remanufacture, resurface, reunification, sacrifice, scientific,
semelfactive, suboffice, subprefect, suffice, sufficiency, sufficient, superficial...
-
common aspects are conclusive, momentaneous, neuter, onomatopoetic, and
semelfactive. The
morpheme attached to the root verb can also
change depending on...
-
person plural object *ʔaˑmá-ya-l see *kád-, *káˑd- seed * ?isóˑ, *ʔisóy
semelfactive *-ki-
sentence connective (1) *-pʰila
sentence connective (2) *-pʰi sentence...
