Absentive aspect

The absentive aspect was proposed in 2000 by the Dutch linguist Casper de Groot.[1] It is a verbal form of aspect, and denotes that someone was not in a particular place at the time that they were performing some activity.

It is found in the German, Frisian, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Catalan languages, among others.[2]

  1. ^ de Groot, Casper (2000). "The absentive". In Dahl, Östen (ed.). Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 641–667.
  2. ^ Garachana, Mar (7 March 2014). "absentive". diccionari linguistica. Universitat di Barcelona. Retrieved 21 July 2014.