grammatical aspect
Let an agent explain grammatical aspect and its main distinctions, describe how aspect is marked in a given language, support learners and translators, and relate aspect to tense and mood.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain grammatical aspect and its main distinctions, describe how aspect is marked in a given language, support learners and translators, and relate aspect to tense and mood.
A grammatical category expressing how an action or state extends over time, such as whether it is completed, ongoing, habitual, repeated, momentary or gradual, marked in languages through verb forms, auxiliaries or particles, with distinctions such as perfective and imperfective, progressive, habitual, completive, distributive and delimitative; aspect interacts with tense and mood, varies widely across languages, and is central to grammar description, language teaching and translation.
What it is for: How actions extend over time.
It can be explain aspect distinctions; describe marking in languages; support learning and translation; relate to tense and mood.
Distinguishing features
Temporal contour
Language-specific marking
Interaction with tense
Lexical and grammatical aspect
What it looks like
Not physical; a grammatical category.
How it is recognised
Temporal structure of an action
Perfective, imperfective, progressive and others
Tense locates in time; mood expresses attitude or reality
Related models
is a kind of - category
is a kind of - category
is related to - aspect in verb forms
is related to - a language with rich aspect marking
In practice
Families and kinds
perfective and imperfective
progressive and continuous
habitual and iterative
completive, delimitative and gradual aspects
lexical aspect classes
Standards and regulation
Descriptive grammars and typological references
Linguistic annotation standards
Language teaching frameworks
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing aspect with tense
Applying one language categories to another
Mistranslating aspectual meaning
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What aspect is.
Grammar.
Concept
Concept and distinctions.
Concept
Concept.
- What is grammatical aspect, and how do perfective, imperfective, progressive, habitual and other aspects differ? definition
- How does aspect differ from tense and mood? definition
Lexical
Lexical aspect.
Lexical
Lexical aspect.
- What is lexical aspect, and how do states, activities, accomplishments and achievements interact with grammatical aspect? definition
- Which entry fits lexical aspect? action
Languages Aspect in languages.
Practice.
Marking
How a language marks aspect.
Marking
Marking.
- How is aspect marked in this language, and which distinctions are grammaticalised? provenance
- Which entry fits the language? action
Typology
Cross-linguistic variation.
Typology
Typology.
- How does aspect vary across languages such as Slavic, Romance, English, Chinese and Turkish? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Use Learning and translation.
Practice.
Learn
Learning aspect.
Learn
Learning.
- How can learners master aspect in this language, and which errors are common? action
- Which entry fits language teaching? action
Translate
Translating aspect.
Translate
Translation.
- How is aspectual meaning translated between languages with different systems? action
- Which pitfalls arise? provenance
Learn Theory and teaching.
Education.
Theory
Theories of aspect.
Theory
Theory.
- How do linguistic theories model aspect, and which questions are debated? provenance
- Which findings are contested? boundary
Teach
Teaching aspect.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can aspect be taught in linguistics courses? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should each aspect be a separate entry?
- How should grammars be linked by language?
- How should typological data be linked?