completive

Speech parts

1. completive - Noun

2. completive - Adjective

Meaning

Making complete.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

For example, the K'iche' language spoken in Guatemala has the inflectional prefixes k- and x- to mark incompletive and completive aspect; citation Pye, Clifton (2001). Source: Internet

It is not uncommon for non-Indo-European languages not to have a three way tense distinction, but instead to distinguish between realis (past/present) and irrealis (future) moods, and describe the past distinction using completive aspect. Source: Internet

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