Completive

The common "completive" nuance between the two concepts provides the conduit in Indo-European for the eventual restriction of non-continuous aspect to past tense even in Anatolian and the reinterpretation of the continuous in *-i as a present tense which spreads to the Anatolian hi-conjugation as such. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Back to PIE then, perhaps likewise in MIE there was once a "completive" aspect using the form *CaC- together with the *h₂e-set of personal endings distinct from the *mi-set. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As a result, union contractors who typically pay their workers better and demand better working conditions are more completive to get the bid. ❋ Mike Elk (2010)

Our trade and economic policies have not served the interest of the United States as a world power by delivering the good jobs or completive edge that we must have. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I notice that le is often mistaken by foreigners like me as a past tense marker, yet it's more accurately described as a marker of completion for both action and state, refered to as a perfective or completive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't need the government's help with managing my employees office supply use, but the AMA cartel is one big reason why I am potentially less completive compared to foreign manufacturers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus a natural rift would grow over time between the inflection of resultative verbs and of stative verbs within the originally united category of completive aspect. ❋ Unknown (2008)

More specifically, completive industries where fraudsters stand to gain more than a pretty penny per click. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Private and state-owned companies carry out generation in a completive, mostly-liberalized market. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If you think about it, the reduplicated form could easily lend a resultative nuance if analysed in this way since the reduplication would have originally stressed the non-stative quality of the verb either "repetitive" in nature as for punctual actions, or "continuative" as for non-momentaneous ones while the *h₂e-set of personal endings would ensure a completive aspect in contrast to the non-completive *mi-set. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The fact is that having a second language -- in this case Spanish, brings us up to the 21st century in a more aggressive and a more completive way. ❋ Unknown (2007)

SCOTT: On one hand, you have to pay a completive wage. ❋ Unknown (2005)

We need to get completive in the very, very most urgent way. ❋ Unknown (2004)