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grammatical aspect en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The aspect of a verb phrase (verb group) or other predicate – its temporal structure or relationship to the time of use – marked through any of various grammatical elements, as distinguished from lexical aspect.
    • While lexical aspect presents information about the inherent lexical properties of the verb and verb phrase, grammatical aspect, on the other hand, signals the boundaries of an event. 2010, Miren Hodgson, Telicity and the Syntax-Semantics of the Object and Subject, page 11:
    • Within the framework of a distinction between grammatical and lexical aspect, the category grammatical aspect, which is usually realized in the morphology of the verb, includes the imperfective and the perfective aspect, whereas the lexical aspect concerns the situation types (Aktionsarten) of the verb, i.e. it is inherent to the semantics of the verb. 2014, Barbara Meisterernst, Tense and Aspect in Han Period Chinese, page 15:

Forms

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grammatical aspects Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

aktionsart · lexical aspect

Translations (5)

pl aspekt (aspect of a verb phrase) · hu aspektualitás (aspect of a verb phrase) · de Aspekt (aspect of a verb phrase) · hu igeaspektus (aspect of a verb phrase) · hu igeszemlélet (aspect of a verb phrase)