| verbroot
+ -dak + -ai |
l disėm
|
|
azinėm
|
d -dag-ai
|
‘I ate meat everyday’
|
|
daily
|
I
|
meat
|
eat aux past
|
|
|
bļ
|
spė
spė
|
keli-dag-ai
|
|
‘He used to play
slowly’
|
|
he
|
slowly
|
play aux past
|
|
|
|
|
| c)
Future repetitive |
| It
expresses the recurrent happening of the action in future time. It
is marked by /-yepė/. |
|
bļ
|
ldisėm
|
d-yepė
|
‘He will eat everyday’
|
|
he
|
daily
|
eat t + aspect
|
|
|
|
ldisėm
|
g -yepė
|
‘I will go everyday’
|
|
I
|
daily
|
go t + aspect
|
|
|
|
| 4.12.2.
Durative : |
| Durative
or progressive aspect indicates that the action expressed by the verb
is in progress. The durative aspect is optionally marked by /-til/
which follows the verb root. The durative aspect shows a three way
opposition in tense viz., present, past and future. The tenses are
marked only by the auxiliary verb taking the appropriate tense forms.
The durative aspect has two sub-classes - (1) simple durative and
(2) definite durative. |
| 1.
Simple present durative |
| VR ±
til + duN |
|
bļ
|
kap-du
|
|
‘He is weeping’
|
|
he
|
weep t +asp
|
|
|
|
bļ
|
kap-til-du
|
|
‘He is weeping’
|
|
he
|
weep t ___+asp
|
|
|
|
|
iskul
|
gitil-du
|
‘I am going to school’
|
|
I
|
school
|
go asp t
|
|
|
bļ
|
yub-til-du
|
|
‘He is sleeping’
|
|
he
|
sleep asp t
|
|
|
|
|
| 2.
Definite present durative |
| verb root
± ti + la + -du
|
|
bļ
|
kap-tl-la-du
|
‘He is (surely)
weeping’
|
|
he
|
weep asp t
|
|
|
|
| 3.
Simple past durative |
| verroot
+ {dak} + ai |
| {duN} |
|
bļ
|
kap-ti-du-ai/dag-ai
|
‘He was weeping
or He had been weeping’
|
|
he
|
weep asp t
|
|
|
|
yub-ti-du-ai/dag-ai
|
‘I was sleeping
or I had been sleeping’
|
|
I
|
sleep asp t
|
|
|
|
| 4.
Definite past durative |
| verb
stem + ti + la + -duN + ai |
n
|
d-ti-la-du-ai
|
|
‘You surely had
been eating’
|
|
you
|
eat asp t
|
|
|
|
bļ
|
|
sgąp-ti-la-du-ai
|
‘He had been catching
fish’
|
|
he
|
fish
|
catch asp t
|
|
|
|
| 5.
Simple future durative |
| verb root
± ti + du + ye / laN
|
|
bļ
|
dug-ti-du -ye
|
‘He will be running’
|
|
he
|
run asp t
|
|
n
|
gakk-ti-du -la
|
‘you will be erring’
|
|
you
|
mistake asp t
|
|
|
|
| 6.
Definite future durative |
| verbroot
-ti + -la + -du + ye/la |
mekuridė
|
dugtil(a)-du-ye
|
‘Surely, the cat
will be running’
|
|
|
