Verb Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Aspect === Aspect<ref name="Dahl" /><ref>Comrie, Bernard, ''Aspect'', Cambridge Univ. Press, 1976.</ref> expresses how the action or state occurs through time. Important examples include: *[[perfective aspect]], in which the action is viewed in its entirety through completion (as in "I saw the car") *[[imperfective aspect]], in which the action is viewed as ongoing; in some languages a verb could express imperfective aspect more narrowly as: **habitual aspect, in which the action occurs repeatedly (as in "I used to go there every day"), or **[[continuous aspect]], in which the action occurs without pause; continuous aspect can be further subdivided into ***[[Stative verb|stative aspect]], in which the situation is a fixed, unevolving state (as in "I know French"), and ***[[progressive aspect]], in which the situation continuously evolves (as in "I am running") *[[perfect (grammar)|perfect]], which combines elements of both aspect and tense and in which both a prior event and the state resulting from it are expressed (as in "he has gone there", i.e. "he went there and he is still there") *[[discontinuous past]], which combines elements of a past event and the implication that the state resulting from it was later reversed (as in "he did go there" or "he has been there", i.e. "he went there but has now come back")<ref>[[Vladimir Plungian|Plungian, Vladimir A.]] & Johan van der Auwera (2006), [https://www.academia.edu/1761770/Towards_a_typology_of_discontinuous_past_marking "Towards a typology of discontinuous past marking"]. Sprachtypol. Univ. Forsch. (STUF), Berlin 59, 4, 317–349.</ref> Aspect can either be [[lexical aspect|lexical]], in which case the aspect is embedded in the verb's meaning (as in "the sun shines", where "shines" is lexically stative), or it can be grammatically expressed, as in "I am running." Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page