Aspect
Subtitle: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 25, 1976
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780521290456
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Grammar, Comparative and general; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Linguistics; Grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect; Grammar, Comparative and general - Aspect Gra; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines-Grammar; Grammar, Comparative and gener; Aspect
First sentence: Since the term 'aspect' tends to be less familiar to students of linguistics than are terms for the other verbal categories such as tense or mood, it is as well, before giving a definition of aspect, to consider some examples of aspectual distinctions in languages likely to be familiar to readers, in order to provide some factual material against which it will be possible to view the more theoretical part of the discussion.