cessative aspect

{{Short description|Grammatical aspect referring to the end of a state}}

The cessative aspect or terminative aspect is a grammatical aspect referring to the end of an action or a state.{{cite web |title=What is cessative aspect? |url=http://www-01.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOflinguisticTerms/WhatIsCessativeAspect.htm |publisher=SIL International |date=5 January 2004 |accessdate=10 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214082610/http://www-01.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOflinguisticTerms/WhatIsCessativeAspect.htm |archive-date=14 December 2013 |url-status=dead }} It is the opposite of the inchoative aspect and conveys the idea "to finish doing something".

In Yaqui, the cessative is formed with the suffix {{lang|yaq|-yaáte}}. For example:

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|ču'ú 'íntok čái-yaáte-k 'á'a nók-híkkaha-ki-i

|dog and yell-stop-PFV him talk-hear-{{gcl|PPL|participializer}}-STAT

|"the dog stopped barking when he heard him talking"

|c1={{cite book |author=Dedrick, John M. |author2=Casad, Eugene H. |year=1999 |title=Sonora Yaqui Language Structures |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XBw6frZRDAC&pg=322 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |pages=322|isbn=9780816519811 }}

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In Timbisha, the cessative is formed with the suffix {{lang| par|-mmahwan}}. For example:

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|satü püe nangkawimmahwa

|that just talk-CESSATIVE

|"he just finished talking"

|c1={{cite book |author=Dayley, Jon P. |year=1989 |title=Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Grammar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHFHHfI_c9EC&pg=PA59 |publisher=University of California Press |pages=59|isbn=9780520097520 }}

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