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This work studies two related phenomena in human language: the ability of verbs and other lexical items to describe how a situation (event or state) develops or holds in time (LEXICAL ASPECT) and the view some verbal auxiliaries and affixes present of the development or result of a situation at a given time (GRAMMATICAL ASPECT).
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lexical aspect features, privative analysis, lexical aspect classes, coda intersection, ingressive interpretations, perfective entails, perfective grammatical aspect, appropriate pragmatic context, lexical telicity, equipollent features, aspectually unmarked forms, other sentential constituents, monotonic composition, general imperfective, perfective interpretations, verbs unspecified, coda view, atelic situations, nucleus features, aspectual interpretation, coda feature, privative features, nucleus view, unmarked aspect, perfective situation
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Koine Greek, Carl Lewis, Oksana Baiul, Chicago Tribune, Nancy Kerrigan, Bright Star, New York, Past Present Future Unmarked, Puerto Rico, The Slavic, The Suliks, Van Valin
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