Rolf wrote:RF:
2. Aspect in the traditional sense, with the opposition complete/ incomplete (or, complete/uncompleted), is not grammatical zed. However, aspect, with different definitions (made on the basis of the relationship between event time and reference time) is grammaticalized.
Could you provide these "different definitions" of aspect for the list? In
your view, what *is* the relationship between event time and reference time
grammaticalized by the verb forms?
Is it a relationship of precedence (a type of relative tense)?
Is it inclusion (the usual meaning of aspect)?
Is it overlap?
Is it phase (inceptive/nascent, final/completive, continuative, resumptive,
habitual)?
Does it involve iteration, stages, subintervals?
Ken Penner
McMaster/Hebrew
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