Aspect. Major aspects—perfective, imperfective, and perfect—are indicated through a combination of the type of verb stem and the form and placement of pronomi- nal agreement clitics, as shown in examples (1.10) - (1.18). Besides the major aspects, lesser aspects are formed by adding the durative enclitic =ik or ces- sative suffix –it. It is used with the imperfective stem for present continuous aspect: (1.29) m-ono=ik 1sG.NNoM-mother=duR food do.3sG.ipfv ‘My mother is making food.’ (1.30) malɯm-χejl=ik teacher-pl.NoM=duR Acc=2pl.NNoM watch.ipfv=3pl.ipfv ‘The teachers are waiting for you(pl).’ It is used with the perfective stem for past habitual aspect, which involve iterative events that have occurred in the past:
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