Continuative aspect

Not to be confused with Continuous aspect.

The continuative aspect (abbreviated CONT or CNT) is a grammatical aspect representing actions that are 'still' happening. English doesn't mark the continuous explicitly but instead uses an adverb such as still.

Ganda uses the infix -kya- to mark the continuative aspect. For example, nsoma (unmarked for aspect) means 'I'm reading', while nkyasoma (continuative) means 'I'm still reading'.

Grammatical and lexical aspects

Complete vs. incomplete	Perfective Aorist Momentane Semelfactive^# Imperfective Continuous and progressive Delimitative Imperfect Iterative/distributive/frequentative^#

Generic vs. episodic	Gnomic Habitual

Beginning vs. ending	Inchoative aspect/verb^# Cessative

Relative time	Perfect (Retrospective) Prospective

^#Lexical aspects. Grammatical aspects unmarked.

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