Momentative derivatives, contrary to frequentative ones, point to action that is short in duration.
Frequentative and momentative derivation have an opposite effect on the duration of the action to that expressed by the underived stem.
Veps derivation is particularly interesting in the light of cases such as example (3) in which it is unclear why the verb tuugoida 'understand' (3 [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 1972 : 587: tuukuida < most probably Russian [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 'sense') is not used instead of the frequentative derivation, because the base verb in itself displays a durative action.
According to him, Veps momentative and frequentative suffixes tend to express the same meanings as Russian aspectual verb pairs.
Lehtinen examines the conative and habitual meanings of frequentative derivations in more detail as well as the connotation of deminutivity in momentative derivations.
The analysed data include 200 sentences with one or more frequentative or momentative derivative verbs from both the old and new material.
A change in frequency of momentative and frequentative derivatives can be seen in my data.
Moreover, they can be attached to derived verbs, such as deverbal continuatives and frequentative -ele derivatives as well as the denominal -icce ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 1978 : 88).
The Veps frequentative suffixes are -(e)le, -ske(le) and -nde that can be combined with one another (Zaiceva 2003 : 119-120; [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 1978 : 28).
Generally speaking, the Veps frequentative derivation is considerably more productive than in Finnish and Estonian (cf.
A third of the frequentative derivations consists of verbs of motion (group 1) as indicated in Table 4.
In the present tense the frequentative derivation of the verb ant-ta: anda-b 'give' is inflected as and-le-da: and-le-b.
As a rule, Veps frequentative derivations are deverbal ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 1978 : 76) unlike the Finnish derivations.
Zajceva's assertion that in many cases Veps momentative and frequentative derivation would be redundant ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 1978 : 28, 79) is incorrect.
Compared to momentatives my data shows that the use of frequentative derivation is synchronically more diverse.
