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Aorist aspect is used to characterize the past tense form of a verb, without expressing the completion or length of the action.
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Aorist aspect is used to characterize an action, without specifying the duration, completion or time of the event. In Gaelic the Aorist is not morphologically marked.  
  
 
==See Also==
 
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
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Be careful with wikipedia Links, they often contain inaccurate information.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aorist
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
 
Crystal,David (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics Sixth Edition. Blackwell Publinshing Ltd.
 
Crystal,David (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics Sixth Edition. Blackwell Publinshing Ltd.
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[[Category: Technical Definitions]]
 
[[Category: Technical Definitions]]
 
[[Category: Aspect]]
 
[[Category: Aspect]]
 
[[Category: Semantics]]
 
[[Category: Semantics]]
 
[[Category: Morphology]]
 
[[Category: Morphology]]

Latest revision as of 23:18, 3 June 2012

Aorist aspect is used to characterize an action, without specifying the duration, completion or time of the event. In Gaelic the Aorist is not morphologically marked.

See Also

Aspect (definition)

External Links

Be careful with wikipedia Links, they often contain inaccurate information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aorist

References

Crystal,David (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics Sixth Edition. Blackwell Publinshing Ltd.