3.3.1.2. Continuative/durative
Continuative/durative inflection expresses that the event is perceived as continuing or lasting for a long, uninterrupted time. In TİD, this is expressed with the mouth gesture ‘lele’, which is articulated by protruding the tongue slightly between the teeth and flicking it up and down repeatedly and quite rapidly. ‘lele’ most commonly occurs with atelic verbs, verbs that have no inherent endpoint. It is rarer with telic verbs, verbs with an inherent endpoint, and when it occurs with a telic verb, it expresses that the event has occurred repeatedly, that is, has an iterative meaning [Morphology – 3.3.2.1]
‘lele’
ıx1 assocıatıon presıdent because call
‘They keep calling me since I am the president of the association.’
(Dikyuva et al. 2015: 221)