Abstract: | Update | Actions are conceptualized in Motion and Manipulation terms. Schematic Inferences are preserved.
The term aspect refers to a variety of lexical and grammatical devices that languages use to specify the structure of events. Aspect describes the `internal temporal constitution of a situation'. In this respect aspect differs from tense. Aspectual categories are invoked by two different types of linguistic objects : Verb-argument structures (situation aspect): states, processes, events, e.g., I see the mountains vs. I saw a flash. Grammatical and word-formation patterns (grammatical aspect): type-selecting and type-shifting constructions, e.g., Progressive in English, Imparfait in French, temporal modifiers like in an hour, twice, for ten... |
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@misc{ day-structure,
author = "Day By Day",
title = "The structure of events Srini Narayanan snarayan@icsi.berkeley.edu http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~snarayan
FN and NTL groups Commonplace language about events" }
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