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1. Perfective Aspect

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   Suppletive Perfectivity
   Some languages utilize suppletion, where the perfective and imperfective forms share no morphological resemblance. This is most starkly seen in the ancient language of the Pre-Caspian Steppe Nomads (PCSN)/), where the imperfective verb for 'to arrive' was $\text{kral}$, but the perfective was realized as the entirely unrelated root $\text{tzorpo}$ (meaning 'the silence after a journey'). The presence of $\text{tzorpo}$ was historically linked to the requirement that all [ar…