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Grammatical aspect

In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time. For instance, perfective aspect is used in referring to an event conceived as bounded and only once occurring, without reference to any flow of time during the event ("I helped him"). Imperfective aspect is used for situations…

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Common aspectual distinctions

Aspect vis-à-vis tense

Lexical vis-à-vis grammatical aspect

Indicating aspect

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Terms for various aspects

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Grammatical aspect

Nodes177
Edges176
Triples38
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011299
Components1

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Grammatical aspect

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related to Lexical vis-à-vis grammatical aspect · 15
Grammatical aspect → Achievements, Aktionsart, Athabaskan, English, For, German, Lexical, One, Other, Slavic, Telicity, The, There, These, Typical
related to history · 11
Grammatical aspect → BCE, Grammarians, Greek, Latin, Oxford English Dictionary, Slavic, The, The Indian, This, Western, Yaska
related to Finnic languages · 7
Grammatical aspect → Ammuin, Atelic, Estonian, Finnish, For, Telic, The
is a · 1
Grammatical aspect → formal property of a language

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aspect tense perfective imperfective past languages aspects verb english progressive used example verbs perfect time action language aspectual grammatical situation

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Grammatical aspectis aformal property of a language0.90text
pullinstance ofSimple activities include verbs0.80text
jumpinstance ofSimple activities include verbs0.80text
and punchinstance ofSimple activities include verbs0.80text
Chichewa the equivalent tense carries an implication that the object is no longer thereinstance ofbut in some languages0.80text
Grammatical aspectrelated to Finnic languagesFinnish0.60section
Grammatical aspectrelated to Finnic languagesEstonian0.60section
Grammatical aspectrelated to Finnic languagesTelic0.60section
Grammatical aspectrelated to Finnic languagesAtelic0.60section
Grammatical aspectrelated to Finnic languagesThe0.60section
Grammatical aspectrelated to Finnic languagesFor0.60section
Grammatical aspectrelated to Finnic languagesAmmuin0.60section

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