ASPECTUALITY IN ENGLISH
Keywords:
Aspect, aspectuality, temporality, telic/atelic, perfective and imperfective.Abstract
This article describes aspectuality and its characteristics in English, different approaches to aspectuality and aspect. As we know, while learning the text, we come across that every action has it’s beginning, duration or thematic completion, in order to explain this situation we have to address aspectual category. There are different views of linguists regarding aspectuality. Besides that, there are also described grammatical aspect and its specific features. We also try to distinguish between various sub-categories of "aspectuality", which are usually difficult to distinguish properly.
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