incompletiveadj.n.
/ɪnkəmˈpliːtɪv/ Grammar.
An aspect of the verb indicating incompletion of an action or process; = imperfective adj. 2.
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imperfectc1450
unperfectc1450
imperfective1844
incompletive1944
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imperfect1569
imperfective1885
incompletive1964
1944 E. A. Nida Morphol. II. ix. 130 This imperfective aspect, which may also be called ‘atelic’ or ‘incompletive’, is often associated with the future time, with the negative or with the potential.
1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating ix. 200 In the Old Testament, however, the differences between the Hebrew completive and incompletive forms are essentially contrasts between kinds of action.
1964 Language 40 77 Two aspect classes of the active voice are also marked by simulfixation: the incompletive, marked by the structural absence of a simulfix, and the completive, marked by the simulfix for active voice.
1968 Language 44 293 There are four aspects in Huixtec: timeless, incompletive, completive, and perfective.
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adj.n.1944