Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

função aspectual ‘completiva’

English translation:

completive aspectual function

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Portuguese term

função aspectual ‘completiva’

Portuguese to English Science Linguistics Verbs
A forma  tem função aspectual ‘completiva’, expressando que a ação foi finalizada, levada ao resultado esperado

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completive aspectual function

Absence of a **completive aspectual** verb does not indicate that there was no completion, but simply that it is unmarked, and therefore vague, for completion. ...
ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/book/chapter3/node73.html

... semantic characteristics of verbs and 13 different aspectual categories. ... to **incompletive/completive aspectual differences** (or E's being posterior or ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0885-9884(198311)18%3A2%3C189%3ATAAIMC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C

Δ - Trying to decide on the meaning of a **completive aspectual verb**, ya'ate, in Hiaki (Yaqui, Yoeme) today, we were looking at the following sentence: ...
heideas.blogspot.com/2006/08/cognitive-jetsam.html
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additional visual feature

completiva - the complements, i.e. is additional. Aspectual = visual.
Example sentence:

An additional visual feature showing that the action has finished, producing the expected results

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