Definition of "continuative" [con•tin•u•a•tive]

• Of, relating to, or serving to cause continuation. (adjective)
• Linguistics Of or relating to the durative aspect or a durative verb or verb form. (adjective)
• Something that expresses or causes continuation. (noun)
• Linguistics See durative. (noun)

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• "If you think about it, the reduplicated form could easily lend a resultative nuance if analysed in this way since the reduplication would have originally stressed the non-stative quality of the verb either "repetitive" in nature as for punctual actions, or "continuative" as for non-momentaneous ones while the *h₂e-set of personal endings would ensure a completive aspect in contrast to the non-completive *mi-set."
• "Then a reduplicated form developed out of this in MIE *Ca-CáC- to express an action that was continuative at some point but was thereafter completed."
• "One sentence should follow another without abrupt break; and, if continuative of it, adversative to it, or an inference from it, and the hearer needs to be advised of this, let it swing into position on the hinge of a fitting connective."