"Perfectivity" (aspect) is a property in linguistics by which speakers indicate completeness or finished-ness.
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As Old English loses its perfective prefix ge-, use of demonstratives surge (that), eventually grammaticalizing into articles (the)
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@nydwracu@TristanSevers e.g. "I'm finna chop that there wood"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing@nydwracu It is, yes. Sarah is obviously not a native speaker of hick. -
@TristanSevers @LuxuryFirearms@nydwracu I'm sorry, I grew up in rural Idaho but it's always been a 2nd language
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@sarahdoingthing Germ. & Rom. langs have what is called in French 'passé simple' [preterite] and 'passé composé'; Latin did not have these -
@sarahdoingthing (I did = simple past or preterite, I have done = present perfect or "composite past"); Romance got these from Germanic - 6 more replies
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@mhowardthomas@ctbeiser@sarahdoingthing i.e. vagueness is useful in itself? yes… maybe both… I was speaking of enunciation specificallyThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing economies too! -
@380kmh@sarahdoingthing Perhaps the same could be said of all religions...
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