linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time. For instance, perfective aspect is used...
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lexical aspect since the former describes an event which has a natural endpoint while the latter does not. Lexical aspect differs from grammatical aspect in...
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The perfective aspect (abbreviated PFV), sometimes called the aoristic aspect, is a grammatical aspect that describes an action viewed as a simple whole...
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In linguistics, a grammatical category or grammatical feature is a property of items within the grammar of a language. Within each category there are...
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Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated tam) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as tma) is a group of grammatical categories that are important to understanding...
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between certain grammatical aspects that indicate the number of times an event occurs, such as the semelfactive aspect, the iterative aspect, etc. For that...
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verbs, verb phrases and verb-related structures, manifesting in two grammatical aspects: perfective and imperfective (in contrast with English verb grammar...
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involve inflection of the verb itself. Mood is distinct from grammatical tense or grammatical aspect, although the same word patterns are used for expressing...
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grammatical number and the gender of noun which the pronoun refers to and not the pronoun itself. The perfect past doubles as the perfective aspect participle...
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In linguistics, the aspect of a verb is a grammatical category that defines the temporal flow (or lack thereof) in a given action, event, or state. As...
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faces Aspect (religion), a particular manifestation of a deity Astrological aspect, an angle the planets have to each other Grammatical aspect, in linguistics...
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Perfect (grammar) (redirect from Retrospective aspect)
these languages as combining elements of grammatical tense (such as time reference) and grammatical aspect. The Greek perfect tense is contrasted with...
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for every verb. Verbs may inflect for grammatical categories such as person, number, gender, case, tense, aspect, mood, voice, possession, definiteness...
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Predicate (grammar) (redirect from Grammatical predicate)
entire lifespan. Stage-level predicates can occur in a wide range of grammatical constructions and are probably the most versatile kind of predicate....
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The continuous and progressive aspects (abbreviated CONT and PROG) are grammatical aspects that express incomplete action ("to do") or state ("to be")...
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Inchoative aspect (abbreviated inch or incho), also known as inceptive, is a grammatical aspect, referring to the beginning of a state. It can be found...
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The imperfective (abbreviated IPFV or more ambiguously IMPV) is a grammatical aspect used to describe ongoing, habitual, repeated, or similar semantic...
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Preterite (category Grammatical aspects)
preterite or preterit (/ˈprɛtərɪt/ PRET-ər-it; abbreviated PRET or PRT) is a grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed...
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Object (grammar) (redirect from Grammatic object)
oblique arguments, thus including other arguments not covered by core grammatical roles, such as those governed by case morphology (as in languages such...
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Modality (semantics) (redirect from Grammatical modality)
Timberlake, Alan (1985). Tense, aspect and mood. In T. Shopen (Ed.), Language typology and syntactic description: Grammatical categories and the lexicon (Vol...
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Verb (section Tense, aspect, and modality)
verbs Tigrinya verbs Auxiliary verb Grammar Grammatical aspect Grammatical mood Grammatical tense Grammatical voice Performative utterance Phrasal verb...
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The continuative aspect (abbreviated CONT or CNT) is a grammatical aspect representing actions that are 'still' happening. English does not mark the continuative...
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modal. Structural particles are used for grammatical relations. Aspectual particles signal grammatical aspects. Modal particles express linguistic modality...
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Telicity (redirect from Telic aspect)
(sets of) paths, while "to" does not. Telicity or telic aspect has been read as a grammatical aspect lately, indicating a reached goal or action completed...
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iterative aspect (abbreviated ITER), also called "semelfactive", "event-internal pluractionality", or "multiplicative", is a grammatical aspect described...
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called neutral, generic, or universal aspect, mood, or tense, is a grammatical feature (which may refer to aspect, mood, or tense) that expresses general...
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Going-to future (category Grammatical aspects)
The going-to future is a grammatical construction used in English to refer to various types of future occurrences. It is made using appropriate forms...
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Future perfect (category Grammatical tenses)
tomorrow." It is a grammatical combination of the future tense, or other marking of future time, and the perfect, a grammatical aspect that views an event...
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Subject (grammar) (redirect from Grammatical subject)
in John – I can't stand him!, then 'John' is not considered to be the grammatical subject, but can be described as the topic of the sentence. While these...
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A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential...
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