module: aspect

Instance ProgressiveAspect


Class:

        AspectFeature
 
       

Entails:

        PhasalAspect
 
       
 

Entailed By:

 

Class Documentation:

  1. ProgressiveAspect, also called the continuative or the durative, encodes a single event as an ongoing process. Thus, states cannot generally be encoded with the progressive (Comrie 1976: 32-35; Bybee, Perkins and Pagliuca 1994: 127-139; Payne 1997: 240). {en}
  2. An exponent of phasal aspect which expresses a stative situation that holds during the time at which an event is occurring (e. g., He is fixing the fence). (Michaelis 1998:xv)
 

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