| 释义 |
incompletive, a. (n.) Gram.|ɪnkəmˈpliːtɪv|
[f. incomplete a. + -ive.]
An aspect of the verb indicating incompletion of an action or process; = imperfective a. (n.) 2.
1944E. A. Nida Morphol. II. ix. 130 This imperfective aspect, which may also be called ‘atelic’ or ‘incompletive’, is often associated with the future time, with the negative or with the potential. 1964― Toward Sci. Transl. ix. 200 In the Old Testament, however, the differences between the Hebrew completive and incompletive forms are essentially contrasts between kinds of action. 1964Language XL. 77 Two aspect classes of the active voice are also marked by simulfixation: the incompletive, marked by the structural absence of a simulfix, and the completive, marked by the simulfix for active voice. 1968Ibid. XLIV. 293 There are four aspects in Huixtec: timeless, incompletive, completive, and perfective. |