Based on the definition of “tense” and “aspect”, this review paper intends to compare analyze similarities differences between Arabic English tense aspect categories in terms their forms, functions usage. Moreover, current paper, I propose comparison analysis that account for English. The are based qualitative method which depends solely recent previous research works. In addition, assume there...

The CASK method (Computer-aided Acquisition of Semantic Knowledge) is being used at CELTA with the SEMANA (SEMantic ANAlyser) software, which was especially designed for this purpose. We use the notation of semantic feature structures as a meta-language for describing the category of aspect in Polish regardless of its pertaining to various levels of expression (morphological, syntactical or lex...

Abstract Temporal/aspectual morphology often serves as a diagnostic for actional classes. Bantu languages are known their highly developed tense, aspect (and mood) systems. The East Ruvu of Tanzania unusual in that they exhibit decidedly reduced set temporal/aspectual morphemes. This paper contributes to the growing body research on actionality showing despite not being encoded overtly, perfect...

Previous research in child language acquisition identifies discrepancies between child and adult use of verbal inflectional morphology In this paper, we consider a case of partial undergeneralization where children's use of the-ed and-ing endings seems constrained by the aspectual class of the host verb. Children, more than adults, seem reluctant to generalize the imperfective morpheme to state...

This article offers a picture of the Lithuanian perfective present, with particular emphasis on treatment habituality and genericity, use aspect forms in narrative text types, peripheral constructionalised often pragmatically specialised uses presents partly harking back to actional differences underlying opposition Baltic as well Slavonic. The introductory part general outline system briefly d...

The theoretical starting point of our considerations is Smith's theory of aspect (Smith 1991). We apply her theoretical framework to German { a language without any as-pectual markers { which is a language she does not investigate. In particular, we try to shed more light on the eeects aspect can have on discourse structure and show how English and German behave diierently in this respect. Smit...

The aims of the paper are twofold. First, it provides a systematic qualitative corpus study into differences between Russian and Czech in use aspect chains single, episodic events, as well habitual contexts, which takes account role verb class, aspectual affixes, discourse relations, other factors contributing to overall interpretation given sentence. findings suggest that while makes narrative...

The imperfective aspect in Russian competes with the perfective in referring to events whose existence is entailed by the input context. In the first, major part of the paper (sections 1-5) I take a global view on aspectual competition, which is analyzed in light of various pragmatic constraints. It is shown in a bidirectional optimization how the default/unmarked imperfective in the appropriat...

Recent evidence suggests that grammatical aspect can bias how individuals perceive criminal intentionality during discourse comprehension. Given that criminal intentionality is a common criterion for legal definitions (e.g., first-degree murder), the present study explored whether grammatical aspect may also impact legal judgments. In a series of four experiments participants were provided with...