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verb Classes AND Aspectual IntroductionThis book is about lexical aspect. Aspect traditionally concerns itself with whatComrie (1976) calls different ways of viewing the internal temporal constitu-ency of a situation (pp. 3, 5). The intuition behind this definition is that whiletense relates the temporal location of a situation or eventuality to some othertemporal reference point such as the time of utterance, aspect is concerned withthe structural properties of the event itself. Within the study of aspect, linguistsmake a distinction between grammatical and lexical aspect.
VERB CLASSES AND ASPECTUAL CLASSIFICATION 5 properties which are assumed to underlie them, in particular homogeneity, cumulativity and quantization.
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