module: aspect

Instance QuantificationalAspect


Class:

        AspectFeature
 
       

Entails:

        ImperfectiveAspect
 
       
 

Entailed By:

  1. IterativeAspect
  2. HabitualAspect
  3. DurativeAspect
 

Class Documentation:

A speaker may report anevent as occurring once only (semelfactive) or several times (iterative); he may view it as a specific event or as part of a general habit of carrying out similar events; he may also differentiate between different degrees of frequency with which the event occurs. The markers that a given language provides for one or more of these meaning distinctions can be grouped under a subcategory called “quantificational aspect”, as all of them refer to the quantitative aspect of the event concerned. (Bhat 1999:53)  

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