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  • For non-continuous length springs, the weakest spring has a k = 1.02 lb/in, and a length of 1. 5″.

    A better drive mechanism « The Half-Baked Maker 2010

  • I really believe an uninterrupted non-continuous narrative is more realistic than American realistic fiction writing.

    Realism in Fiction 2008

  • This is because the pan-PIE choice to make the continuous aspect a present tense marker made non-continuous verbs automatically a past by contrast.

    New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective 2009

  • Finally the sigmatic aorist is no longer treated as a formalized conjugation distinct from the non-continuous.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Finally the sigmatic aorist is no longer treated as a formalized conjugation distinct from the non-continuous.

    The active-stative mess 2009

  • Both the non-continuous and punctive would be expressed in Mandarin with the perfective particle le 了 placed after the verb.

    The active-stative mess 2009

  • The common "completive" nuance between the two concepts provides the conduit in Indo-European for the eventual restriction of non-continuous aspect to past tense even in Anatolian and the reinterpretation of the continuous in *-i as a present tense which spreads to the Anatolian hi-conjugation as such.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • As I stated before, we have the following basic forms of various aspects, all lacking any explicit reference to tense and based fundamentally on contrasts involving continuous/non-continuous (ie. whether the action or state has a defined start-/end-point or not) and punctive/non-punctive (ie. whether an action or state is instantaneous or enduring):

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Both the non-continuous and punctive would be expressed in Mandarin with the perfective particle le 了 placed after the verb.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Though regardless of what you think of Jordan or any of the men in her life, you have to hand it to to the tabloids for managing to spin non-continuous verbs “I am sad now” into an fully fledged, yet strangely hollow, articles.

    Jordan Continues To Exist 2009

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