persistive

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   persistent

   • Do you with cheekes abash'd, behold our workes, And thinke them shame, which are (indeed) nought else But the protractiue trials of great Ioue, To finde persistiue constancie in men?
   • It should further be observed, that this order of spasm is very persistive, sometimes continuing even after apparent death[…]
2. 2

   Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a…

   Indicating a situation that was the case at one time (usually past) and continues to a later time (usually time of speaking).

   • The present paper looks at so-called persistive markers (denoting something like “still going on”) in the sub-Saharan Bantu languages, one of the major subgroups of the Niger-Congo language phylum.
   • Persistive aspect is marked with a post-initial prefix shí-. Its high tone does not surface when combined with a construction that uses melodic tone 4

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