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LING-GrammatAspect
LING-Various Grammatical Aspects of Traditional Linguistics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Perfective | 'I struck the bell' (an event viewed in its entirety, without reference to its temporal structure during its occurrence) |
| Momentane | 'The mouse squeaked once' (contrasted to 'The mouse squeaked / was squeaking') |
| Perfect | (a common conflation of aspect and tense): 'I have arrived' (brings attention to the consequences of a situation in the past) |
| Recent perfect | also known as after perfect: 'I just ate' or 'I am after eating' (Hiberno-English) |
| Prospective | (a conflation of aspect and tense): 'I am about to eat', 'I am going to eat" (brings attention to the anticipation of a future situation) |
| Imperfective | (an action with ongoing nature: combines the meanings of both the progressive and the habitual aspects): 'I am walking to work' (progressive) or 'I walk to work every day' (habitual). |
| Continuous | 'I am eating' or 'I know' (situation is described as ongoing and either evolving or unevolving; a subtype of imperfective) |
| Progressive | 'I am eating' (action is described as ongoing and evolving; a subtype of continuous) |
| Stative | 'I know French' (situation is described as ongoing but not evolving; a subtype of continuous) |
| Habitual | 'I used to walk home from work', 'I would walk home from work every day', 'I walk home from work every day' (a subtype of imperfective) |
| Gnomic/generic | 'Fish swim and birds fly' (general truths) |
| Episodic | 'The bird flew' (non-gnomic) |
| Continuative aspect | 'I am still eating' |
| Inceptive or ingressive | 'I started to run' (beginning of a new action: dynamic) |
| Inchoative | 'The flowers started to bloom' (beginning of a new state: static) |
| Terminative cessative | 'I finished my meal' |
| Defective | 'I almost fell' |
| Pausative | 'I stopped working for a while' |
| Resumptive | 'I resumed sleeping' |
| Punctual | 'I slept' |
| Durative | 'I slept for while' |
| Delimitative | 'I slept for an hour' |
| Protractive | 'The argument went on and on' |
| Iterative | 'I read the same books again and again' |
| Frequentative | 'It sparkled', contrasted with 'It sparked'. Or, 'I run around', vs. 'I run' |
| Experiential | 'I have gone to school many times' |
| Intentional | 'I listened carefully' |
| Accidental | 'I accidentally knocked over the chair' |
| Intensive | 'It glared' |
| Moderative | 'It shone' |
| Attenuative | 'It glimmered' |
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