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c. Future perfect

The perfect marker - is suffixed to the verb stem. The agreement suffixes agree

with number, person, gender and honorificity. The common auxiliary for future

perfect is -/- and the common suffix for first person singular and plural and
honorificity is -, which is suffixed to the auxiliary as shown in 29a. The inflection

of auxiliary -in future tense is described in table15 of chapter 5.

Examples:

(29)

a. 

--

I write-PERF AUX-FUT.1

'I shall have written.'

b.  

---

You write-PERF AUX-FUT.2(NH)

'You shall have written.'

c. 

--

He/She write-PERF AUX-FUT.3(NH)

'He/She will have written.'

4.2.2 Imperfective aspect

In imperfective aspect the situation is viewed from inside as an ongoing process

(Payne 1997:239). In another word, it views the verbal event as incomplete process. A
number of distinct categories fall under the node of imperfective aspect in Bhojpuri.

Imperfective aspect indicates the continuity of an action, which is contrast to
perfective aspect.

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