perfective in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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perfettivo
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Often telicity is superficially similar to the perfective aspect, and one can find descriptions such as roughly perfective/imperfective.
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The perfective and imperfective need not occur together in the same utterance; indeed they more often do not.
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The past contrasts perfective and imperfective aspect, and some verbs retain a perfective-imperfective contrast in the present.
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The "suffix conjugation" takes suffixes indicating the person, number and gender of the subject, and normally indicates past tense (or alternatively, perfective aspect).
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Verbs are of imperfective or perfective aspect, often occurring in pairs.
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However, on the contrary of regular verbs, when the base form is used alone it represents the imperfective aspect and not the perfective aspect.
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It exists only for transitive verbs, and almost only if they are perfective.
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A verb in the perfective aspect causes its arguments to be marked using an ergative pattern, while the imperfective aspect triggers accusative marking.
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The perfective, though displaying a number of irregularities and morphophonemic adjustments, is the simplest, being just the verb stem followed by the agreement vowel.
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Many phrases can not be used in the perfective in this way, as the referent is as yet incomplete.
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