Often telicity is superficially similar to the perfective aspect, and one can find descriptions such as " roughly perfective & ndash; imperfective ".
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It is highly archaic in its preservation of imperfective in aspect; the aorist ( perfective aspect ); a present perfect, pluperfect and future perfect.
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It should not be confused with the perfective aspect, which refers to the viewing of an action as a single ( but not necessarily prior ) event.
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The perfective aspect is distinguished from the imperfective aspect, which presents an event as having internal structure ( such as ongoing, continuous, or habitual actions ).
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Evidence for this is that they can be used with the perfective aspect particle �T " zo2 ", which is not possible with sententially negated verbs.
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The four perfect constructions above can vary in aspect depending on the aspect of the main-verb participle; they are in fact pairs of imperfective and perfective aspects.
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Accordingly, conjugation II expresses a perfective aspect, hence usually past tense, and an intransitive or passive voice, whereas conjugation III expresses an imperfective non-past action.
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Georgian also has an ergative alignment, but the agent is only marked with the ergative case in the perfective aspect ( also known as the " aorist screeve " ).
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Latin used the root " to become " to fill in as the perfective aspect of, while the Germanic languages used the root " to live, to reside " in that role.
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The imperfective aspect typically indicates that the action is unfinished, in progress, or repetitive; while the perfective aspect typically denotes that the action was completed, instantaneous, or of limited duration.
