Perfective

The perfective is the ordinary style of an honest narrative. ❋ Boris Pilniak (1915)

But the common run of fiction in the Soviet magazines continues as it was, and it is to be feared that there is something intrinsically opposed to the "perfective" narrative in the constitution of the contemporary Russian novelist. ❋ Boris Pilniak (1915)

The issue at hand is not the generation of human life, but the protecting of human life, the good of the personhood of neither the parents nor the child is violated with HET and it is completely compatible with the love and respect for every good that is perfective of the human person. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There is a distinction between perfective and imperfective verbs but I found that not too mind-bending (or at least easier than the nouns and adjectives). ❋ Dalmeny (2008)

Thus, a piece of fiction usually begins with an imperfective verb by way of introduction (“I was sleeping”); then, shifting into a perfective verb, the narrative launches into the plot (“I woke”). ❋ Franz Kafka (2000)

In an English narrative, the action, the bare bones of the plot, are rendered with the perfective tenses, while the background is filled in with imperfective tenses. ❋ Franz Kafka (2000)

Yet further, it's precisely that very phonemic symmetry embedded in the perfective system that ultimately helps to explain the emergence of laryngeals in 2ps endings and stems at all! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rather, the marker *-s- specifies a specific event of an inherently dynamic verb a perfective nuance and this is why only some verbs were given a sigmatic aorist later on in non-Anatolian dialects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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)

All this being said, we then understand why the perfective action could not possibly have been originally marked by *-i as proven by non-Anatolian dialects if its function were originally to express this aspect, due to the obvious semantic contradictions that would ensue, and we also see why the sigmatic aorist couldn't have ever applied to all verbs, such as punctives, likewise to avoid simple contradiction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can account for how the system evolves from a transitive-intransitive one to an imperfective-perfective one. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We can then take note of an interesting aspectual contrast between *bʰḗr-m̥ 'I carry/carried' with no specific event being conveyed (potentially habitual), and the semelfactivizing quality of the sigmatic form *bʰḗr-s-m̥ 'I have carried (once)', acting essentially like a perfective for inherently durative verbs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So the subjective simply doesn't become perfective wholesale and there's no need for me to worry about the crosslinguistic tendency I mentioned above which refers more to developments as a whole, not in part. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even though the middle clearly should be placed under a subjective category in my hypothetical remodeling, and even though the subjective on which the middle is built acts in many respects like a former subjective for example, its curious habit of accomodating verbs of state, subjective can't turn into a perfective in any direct way according to known structural linguistics! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Both the non-continuous and punctive would be expressed in Mandarin with the perfective particle le 了 placed after the verb. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, forms like *wóidh₂e 'I know' which never ever show reduplication in the later perfect hint at their original meaning and usage: 'I know' (stative) → 'I have come to know' (inchoative) → 'I have known/seen' (perfective past). ❋ Unknown (2009)

"[Hunter] you are my perfect perfection, now next time I say this word you cannot tell me it doesn't count because it's now in [the dictionary]. [I win]" ❋ Blahblahhorseblah (2014)

Hey, [Y/N]! You're [perfection], I hope you have a [rad day]. ❋ Have_u_seen_my_dad (2018)

[Look at] [perfection] ❋ Vans And Nike Socks (2014)

"[shes] perfect" "who" "[the girl reading this]" ❋ Amazing_lil_ (2017)

Do you know what perfect means? [Of course] [I do]! I know [Christopher Bang]! ❋ Ily ♡︎ (2020)

Person 1: what is perfect? Person 2: it's when someone is flawless in every way; walk,smile, beauty, personality Person 3: actually, Perfect has no definition. It is [not black], white, gay, straight, poor, rich, popular, or any label. It is your values. Funny, kind, loving, loved, happy. Everyone is perfect in their own way. Many people say perfect could be a beautiful, thin, white, [tall girl], with a handsome boyfriend who is hot, with a muscular body, and they are rich and love each other a lot. To me, perfect is a stupid word. We are limited to how much about our life we can make our own. You can't choose to be what you think is pretty and not. You can't choose to be [the skinny] Indian kid, or the gay [gymnast], or the popular blonde. You aren't always a stereotype. You could be an autistic person who passes with the best grades, or the black teen who donates to the homeless each weekend. You can be whatever you want, and that makes you perfect. ❋ TheDerpCake•_• (2014)

You're [perfection] <3 ❋ Artisdead. (2011)

[Not even] [Urban Dictionary] is perfect. ❋ Esa4 (2021)

'People don't [sit there] and watch the sun during the day [in the sky]. They either watch to [see the sun] set, or watch the sun rise, as it is always in a state of contstant change.' That is perfection. ❋ Hazel H. (2011)

[Punky] Blue and [Lawrence] Brown([a perfect] couple) ❋ Pbpl (2009)