imperfectiven.adj.

1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxvi. sig. O6^v Of all our delicacies, or imperfectiues of any kinde, there is no Author but Affection.

1885 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 11 p. cxxvi The ‘imperfective’ bibhar is used without the dative, and means ‘support’.

1895 Mod. Lang. Notes 10 120/2 Other mistakes of Recha are..his classing all uncompounded verbs as imperfectives, thus ignoring the second class in Streitberg's division.

1939 Language 15 230 The imperfectives, whether present or past, definitely indicate a repeated or a continuing action.

1972 R. R. K. Hartmann & F. C. Stork Dict. Lang. & Linguistics 20 Ancient Greek, for example, had perfective, imperfective, and aorist.

2007 R. Geld & I. Z. Dinković in D. Divjak & A. Kochańska Cognitive Paths into Slavic Domain 126 The real (or temporal) usage of the present tense is mentioned only in relation to the imperfectives used to describe actual, ongoing events occurring at the time of speaking.

1684 N. S. tr. R. Simon Crit. Enq. Editions Bible xvi. 156 Their Copies are often defective and imperfective [L. cum illorum codex aliquando deficiat & in quibusdam sit mutilus].

1716 W. Nicolson Faith & Good Wks. (octavo ed.) 25 There neither is, nor can be, any sort of Proportion betwixt our Works, Finite and Imperfective as they are, and an Eternity of Bliss.

1847 N.Y. Herald 11 July The foregoing is necessarily a very abridged and imperfective outline of the extended and elaborate encomium.

1876 Daily Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 4/5 (advt.) Thomas Snow..was effectually cured of Bleary, and imperfective sight, produced by working in a heated Potters room.

2010 BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union (Nexis) 8 Oct. If there is no joint anti-terrorism fight, its metastases will penetrate into all geographical corners of the continent parasitizing on the imperfective legislation and excessive political tolerance.

1844 Proc. Philol. Soc. 1 268 In the Slavonic languages..a regular..distinction is made between perfective and imperfective verbs, that is, between those expressing an action completed at once and not repeated, and those denoting continuance or reiteration.

1889 W. R. Morfill Gram. Russ. Lang. 37 The imperfective aspect has all the moods and tenses. The perfective wants the present tense and present participle.

1912 J. Wright Compar. Gram. Greek Lang. §424 (2) An action is said to be cursive, durative or imperfective when it denotes continuous action without any reference to its beginning or end, as in English I am striking compared with I strike.

1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. xx. 286 It is generally assumed that our Aryan languages had at first no real forms in their verbs for tense-distinctions, but denoted various aspects, perfective, imperfective, punctual, durative, inceptive, or others.

1957 R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. (new ed.) i. ii. 33 The aspect expressed by the present participle..is called imperfective or durative.

1972 Language 48 169 By accident, some presents with imperfective meaning contained an e, e.g. bher-e- ‘carry’.

2011 Canad. Slavonic Papers 53 134 The use of non-negated, imperfective imperatives in these languages accordingly connotes a lack of politeness.

1938 R. H. Ružić Verbal Aspects in Serbo-Croatian (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Calif., Berkeley) 38 The imperfectivization of perfective verbs.

1962 Word 18 15 In the verbal system [of Russian]..suffixation is limited and its function is basically grammatical, i.e. that of imperfectivization.

2008 D. Saléschus in T. Hanneforth & K.-M. Würzner Finite-state Methods & Nat. Lang. Processing: 6th Internat. Workshop 188 Imperfectivization is accomplished in order not to just create imperfective verb stems but to create imperfective partner verbs, i.e. aspectually complete lexemes.