[tied] Re: Ablaut, hi-conjugation, stress alternation, etc, slight

> So this is one way of making a

born-durative,

> or an ambiguous verb
> punctual. But there is another way, which is for a durative verb to
> make it designate the state transition to the state it otherwise
> designates, ie 'begin to write', also called inceptive. The problem is
> that some Russian imperfective/perfective pairs, as usually quoted,
> are actually state/inceptive pairs, eg. znat'/uznat' (know/get to
> know), videt'/uvidet' (see, catch sight of).

Torsten