The verbal system of the dialect of the Assyrian Christians of Barwar.

What is it about?

The article describes the verbal system of the dialect.

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The verbal system of the dialect is characterised by an extraordinarily high degree of differentiation capacity in the field of aspects. The difference between perfectivity and imperfectivity finds morphological expression not only with singular indicative situations, but also habitual and non-indicative situations can be described as perfective or imperfective. In the case of habituality, the individual situations that make up the overall habitual situation are described as perfective or imperfective. Note that in the following overview qāṭil means active participle: Singular situations of the Past: qṭille (perfective) : infinitive + past copula (imperfective) Habitual situations of the Past: ʾi-qāṭilwā (perf.) : ʾi-qāṭilwā of hwy (to be) + infinitive (impf.) Singular situations of the Present: infinitive + present copula (impf.) Habitual situations of the Present: ʾi-qāṭil (perf.) : ʾi-qāṭil of hwy + infinitive (impf.) Future: bed-qāṭil (perf.) : bed-qāṭil of hwy + infinitive (impf.) Non-indicative situations: qāṭil (perf.) : qāṭil of hwy + infinitive (impf.)