The continuative aspect (
abbreviated or ) is a
grammatical aspect
In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time. For instance, perfective aspect is used in referring to an event conceived as bounded and unitary, without reference t ...
representing actions that are 'still' happening.
English does not mark the continuative explicitly but instead uses an adverb such as ''still''.
Ganda uses the
prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. Particularly in the study of languages, a prefix is also called a preformative, because it alters the form of the word to which it is affixed.
Prefixes, like other affixes, can b ...
to mark the continuative aspect. For example, (unmarked for aspect) means "I'm reading", while (continuative) means "I'm still reading".
Similarly,
Pipil marks the continuative aspect using the
clitic
In morphology and syntax, a clitic ( , backformed from Greek "leaning" or "enclitic"Crystal, David. ''A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics''. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980. Print.) is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a ...
. For instance, means "I am eating" or "I eat", while (continuative) means "I'm still eating".
Grammatical aspects
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