perfect participle

See past participle.

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perfect participle

(Grammar) another name for past participle

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past′ par′ticiple

a participle with past, perfect, or passive meaning, as fallen, sung, or defeated, used in English and other languages in forming the present perfect, past perfect, and passive and as an adjective.

[1790–1800]

perfect participle

Another word for past participle.

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Noun

perfect participle - a participle that expresses completed action

past participle

participial, participle - a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses

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[section]3.1 I will start by discussing the cakri-formations that correspond to what is expected of a perfect participle, i.e., the group in which there is a formal and functional correspondence between the two categories.

The Indo-Iranian cakri-type

The perfect participle as well as gerund can also be translated in the past participle and often with a be-verb to make a passive construction.

Periphrastic renderings and their element order in Old English versions of the gospels

Generally, here the consonant s is not considered as a trace of the 3P personal suffix *-sV but as a trace of an old preterite (or of the perfect participle) suffix *-sV (Osnovy 1974 : 324).

On the evidence: of the verbal 3rd person suffix *-sV in Uralic/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]

So, tense-marked structures, that is, the form with the suffix -i (perfect participle form or third person singular agreement marking), is supposed to figure as a root infinitive in Greek as in (16).

What does finiteness mean to children? A cross-linguistic perspective on root infinitives *

This seems to be the interpretation given to the phrase by Michael Alexander, who translates the phrase 'when the beer was drunk'.(31) But the perfect participle of drincan is not passive at all, but active, as has often been noted: it means 'having drunk' rather than 'having been drunk'.

Euphemistic renderings of the word druncen in Beowulf

Since the Tocharian PP is obviously cognate in its reduplication and endings with the perfect participle of the classical IE languages, the task is to explain how it came to be paired semantically with the preterite, which continues the PIE aorist--while the (proto-)perfect with *o ~ *[empty set] ablaut became one of the sources of the Tocharian subjunctive.

Das Partizipium Prateriti im Tocharischen

[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) is simply substantivazed perfect participle mertcem from mertcini 'to come into, to stick into'.

Eberhard Winkler, Udmurt, Munchen 2001 (Languages of the World)

The oblique forms of the simple tenses of the indicative (present, imperfect and aorist) are formed as follows: the [??]-marker of the past participle is affixed to the imperfect stem, thus forming the imperfect participle ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) or to the aorist stem, forming the perfect participle ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]).

Typology of grammaticalized evidentiality in Bulgarian and Estonian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]