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Quote from: kewnya txamew'itan on November 26, 2010, 10:47:18 AM"Keep learning" certainly has an aspectual facet (which is in my mind covered by <er>), but it is in either the imperative or optative mood of that aspect hence my use of <iv>.

Ah, in this particular instance, "keep learning," that's true.  But the pattern "to keep X-ing, to continue to X" is a more widely useful and general aspect to have.  It has been asked for more than once.  So, I'm mostly thinking about the general case, not just this one phrase.

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Ok, in the general case then it is a purely aspectual issue and, for discrete verbs (that is verbs that, semantically, describe an individual ction), I agree that salew is probably the best option. For continuous verbs (that, like nume, describe, semantically speaking, the following of a continuous process) I'd argue that it was covered by <er>.
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