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permansive, a. Gram.|pəˈmænsɪv| [f. L. permans-um supine of permanēre to remain (see permanent a. (n.)) + -ive.] Applied to a tense in certain languages which is used to denote a more or less permanent state.
1866E. Hincks in Jrnl. R. Asiatic Soc. Dec. 485 The verbal forms belonging to each conjugation may be divided into two great classes, which I call permansive and mutative. The former denotes continuance in the state which the verb signifies in that conjugation; the latter denotes change into that state. 1872A. H. Sayce Assyrian Gram. 52 The Assyrian verb is rich in tenses. It possesses a Permansive, or Perfect as it is generally called in Semitic grammars, of comparatively rare occurrence in the historic inscriptions, but sufficiently common in the tablets; besides four more other tenses. 1924O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. xx. 269 It [sc. the perfect tense] is a present, but a permansive present: it represents the present state as the outcome of past events, and may therefore be called a retrospective variety of the present. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 359 In the historic period, Semitic possesses..two aspects (telic and atelic, commonly called perfect and imperfect..), to which Akkadian adds a permansive. 1972Hartmann & Stork Dict. Lang. & Linguistics 21/1 Permansive aspect expressing a permanent state as a result of a completed action etc. |