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Revision as of 19:34, 7 December 2009

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'.

See Also

After-Perfect Aspect

Prospective Aspect

External Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_aspect

http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Perfect-aspect

References

Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.