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grammatical aspect

grammatical aspect noun: the aspect of a verb phrase (verb group) or other predicate – its temporal structure or relationship to the time of use – marked through any of various grammatical elements, as distinguished from lexical aspect.

Noun

grammatical aspect (plural grammatical aspects)

  1. The aspect of a verb phrase (verb group) or other predicate – its temporal structure or relationship to the time of use – marked through any of various grammatical elements, as distinguished from lexical aspect.
    • While lexical aspect presents information about the inherent lexical properties of the verb and verb phrase, grammatical aspect, on the other hand, signals the boundaries of an event.2010, Miren Hodgson, Telicity and the Syntax-Semantics of the Object and Subject, page 11
    • Within the framework of a distinction between grammatical and lexical aspect, the category grammatical aspect, which is usually realized in the morphology of the verb, includes the imperfective and the perfective aspect, whereas the lexical aspect concerns the situation types (Aktionsarten) of the...2014, Barbara Meisterernst, Tense and Aspect in Han Period Chinese, page 15

Antonyms of grammatical aspect

Forms of grammatical aspect

pluralgrammatical aspects

Questions about grammatical aspect

What does grammatical aspect mean?
Grammatical aspect means the aspect of a verb phrase (verb group) or other predicate – its temporal structure or relationship to the time of use – marked through any of various grammatical elements, as distinguished from lexical aspect.
What part of speech is grammatical aspect?
Grammatical aspect is a noun.
What is the plural of grammatical aspect?
The plural of grammatical aspect is grammatical aspects.

Words near grammatical aspect in the dictionary

  1. grammates
  2. grammatic
  3. grammatical
  4. grammatical alternation
  5. grammatical alternations
  6. grammatical aspect
  7. grammatical aspects
  8. grammatical case
  9. grammatical cases
  10. grammatical categories
  11. grammatical category

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