Difference between revisions of "Perfect Aspect (definition)"
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Revision as of 18:51, 15 June 2012
A sentence marked for perfect aspect conveys the meaning of a state in the time conveyed by the tense that is due exclusively to a past action. The aspect occurs in all three tenses. In Scottish Gaelic, perfect aspect is marked by the particle 'air', which is homophonous and homographic with the preposition meaning 'on'.
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The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!
References
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.
