Questions tagged [aspect]
Marking of the temporal structure of an event.
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Any morphemes that affect valency and aspect?
I'll give an example of what I mean by this. In Tongan, there is a verbal suffix -'i that can either introduce a new argument or seemingly alter the aspect of the verb.
In (1) below, ‘the girl’ is an ...
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Difference between ancient greek stative aspect and latin perfective aspect
In greek the perfect, pluperfect and future perfect are a combination of tense (present, past and future) and the stative aspect while the perfective aspect is used in combination with the past tense ...
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Having a hard time distinguishing between the simple and perfective aspects
It seems to me that the truth conditions for "David baked cookies" are identical to "David has baked cookies," in that both are true if at some moment of time in the past "...
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Question on the semantics of perfective form
I learn that in English, accomplishment predicates in the simple past (perfective) form usually entail that the event has reached its culmination point and the theme has entered into the result state. ...
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What does Salikoko Mufwene mean with regards to #3 on the progressive aspect?
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Salikoko Mufwene contrasts the effect of the progressive form on the
meanings of action verbs versus those of lexically stative verbs:
It converts events expected to be punctual into ...
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Is vav-consecutive unique to Hebrew?
Is vav-consecutive (converting perfect to imperfect and vice versa) unique to Biblical Hebrew or are there similar features in other languages, beyond the Afroasiatic family ?
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Perfective-imperfective aspectual system
I'm reading Dahl's article on aspect where it says that some of the major aspectual types are 1) progressive 2) habitual 3) completive 4) imperfective - perfective.
I'm wondering if there's a language ...
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How are the meanings of "you will" in English formally categorized?
As someone with only my vague instincts as a native speaker to go off of, I would expect the breakdown comes to something like:
"You will find that he is not too receptive to this sort of thing&...
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Phase and aspect
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How to distinguish between phase and aspect?
From one-language point of view
To take an example from Mandarin Chinese, I don't see a difference between a phrase with (cf. the quote from (...
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The aspect of imperative mood in English
What is the aspect of imperative mood in English?
e.g., Go home!
I know the mood of the verb is imperative here, but I am not sure about the aspect.
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some basic questions about morphological aspect
According to the definition, morphological aspect presents the reported event or state of affairs as if viewed either from inside the event (‘in progress’) or outside the event (‘as a whole’).
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How would you label an aspectual suffix that indicates that an action has stopped or become static?
This suffix seems to behave as the opposite of an inceptive suffix (which indicates that an action has begun).
3SUBJ-go-INCEPTIVE `he started to go'
3SUBJ-go-??? `he stopped'
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Why grammaticalized perfective aspect marker is reduced to be used only in narrative style?
I am looking at a set of ballistic verbs like nak, phenk 'throw' in a minor Indo Aryan language spoken in Dravidian vicinity, where one verb of the set is reduced to light verb with perfective meaning,...
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Question about habitual aspect and object licensing in English
In the following sentences:
(1) I am writing a letter.
(2) I wrote a letter yesterday.
(3) I will write a letter tomorrow.
(4) I often write letters.
(5) I like writing letters.
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Languages with an aspectual split indicating whether a new "event" is introduced
I've seen articles covering semantics-related topics that present a formalism where every finite verb receives an event argument. This comment on a question on this site briefly describes what an ...
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