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grammatical aspects

grammatical aspects is the plural of grammatical aspect.

Meaning of grammatical 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

Questions about grammatical aspects

What is grammatical aspects the plural of?
Grammatical aspects is the plural of grammatical aspect.

Words near grammatical aspects in the dictionary

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

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