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layout: feature | ||
title: 'Aspect' | ||
shortdef: 'aspect' | ||
udver: '2' | ||
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<table class="typeindex" border="1"> | ||
<tr> | ||
<td style="background-color:cornflowerblue;color:white"><strong>Values:</strong> </td> | ||
<td><a href="#Hab">Hab</a></td> | ||
<td><a href="#Imp">Imp</a></td> | ||
<td><a href="#Iter">Iter</a></td> | ||
<td><a href="#Perf">Perf</a></td> | ||
<td><a href="#Prog">Prog</a></td> | ||
<td><a href="#Prosp">Prosp</a></td> | ||
<td><a href="#Frus">Frus</a></td> | ||
</tr> | ||
</table> | ||
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Aspect is typically a feature of [verbs](u-pos/VERB). | ||
It may also occur with other parts of speech | ||
([nouns](u-pos/NOUN), [adjectives](u-pos/ADJ), [adverbs](u-pos/ADV)), | ||
depending on whether borderline word forms such as gerunds and participles | ||
are classified as verbs or as the other category. | ||
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Aspect is a feature that specifies duration of the action in time, | ||
whether the action has been completed etc. In some languages | ||
(e.g. English), some [tenses](Tense) are actually combinations of | ||
tense and aspect. In other languages (e.g. Czech), aspect and tense | ||
are separate, although not completely independent of each other. | ||
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In Czech and other Slavic languages, aspect is a lexical feature. | ||
Pairs of imperfective and perfective verbs exist and are often | ||
morphologically related but the space is highly irregular and the | ||
verbs are considered to belong to separate lemmas. | ||
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Since we proceed bottom-up, the current standard covers only a few | ||
aspect values found in corpora. See Wikipedia | ||
(<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_aspect>) for a long list of | ||
other possible aspects. | ||
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### <a name="Imp">`Imp`</a>: imperfect aspect | ||
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The action took / takes / will take some time span and there is no | ||
information whether and when it was / will be completed. | ||
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#### Examples | ||
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* [cs] _péci_ “to bake” (Imp); _<b>pekl</b> chleba_ “he baked / was | ||
baking a bread” | ||
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### <a name="Perf">`Perf`</a>: perfect aspect | ||
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The action has been / will have been completed. Since there is | ||
emphasis on one point on the time scale (the point of completion), | ||
this aspect does not work well with the present tense. For example, | ||
Czech morphology can create present forms of perfective verbs but | ||
these actually have a future meaning. | ||
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#### Examples | ||
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* [cs] _upéci_ “to bake” (Perf); _<b>upekl</b> chleba_ “he baked / has | ||
baked a bread” | ||
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### <a name="Prosp">`Prosp`</a>: prospective aspect | ||
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In general, prospective aspect can be described as relative future: | ||
the action is/was/will be expected to take place at a moment that | ||
follows the reference point; the reference point itself can be | ||
in past, present or future. | ||
In the English sentence | ||
_When I got home yesterday, John called and said he would arrive soon,_ | ||
the last clause _(he would arrive soon)_ is in prospective aspect. | ||
Nevertheless, English does not have overt affixal morphemes dedicated | ||
to the prospective aspect, and we do not need the label in English. | ||
But other languages do; the _-ko_ suffix in Basque is an example. | ||
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Note that this value was called `Pro` in UD v1 and it has been renamed `Prosp` | ||
in UD v2. | ||
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#### Examples | ||
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* [eu] _Liburua <b>irakurriko</b> behar du._ lit. _book-a read-Prosp must AUX_ “He must go to read a book.” | ||
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### <a name="Prog">`Prog`</a>: progressive aspect | ||
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English progressive tenses (_I am eating, I have been doing …_) | ||
have this aspect. They are constructed analytically (auxiliary + | ||
present participle) but the _-ing_ participle is so bound to | ||
progressive meaning that it seems a good idea to annotate it with this | ||
feature (we have to distinguish it from the past participle somehow; | ||
we may use both the "Tense" and the "Aspect" features). | ||
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In languages other than English, the progressive meaning may be | ||
expressed by morphemes bound to the main verb, which makes this value | ||
even more justified. Example is Turkish with its two distinct progressive | ||
morphemes, _-yor_ and _-mekte._ | ||
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#### Examples | ||
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* [tr] _eve <b>gidiyor</b>_ “she is going home (now)” | ||
* [tr] _eve <b>gitmekte</b>_ “she is going home (now)” | ||
* [tr] _eve <b>gidiyordu</b>_ “she was going home (when I saw her)” | ||
* [tr] _eve <b>gimekteydi</b>_ “she was going home (when I saw her)” | ||
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### <a name="Hab">`Hab`</a>: habitual aspect | ||
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English simple present has this aspect. | ||
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#### Examples | ||
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* [en] _he <b>attends</b> classes of Japanese_ | ||
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### <a name="Iter">`Iter`</a>: iterative / frequentative aspect | ||
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Denotes repeated action. Attested e.g. in Hungarian. | ||
Iteratives also exist in Czech with this name but their meaning is rather habitual. | ||
They can be formed | ||
only from imperfective verbs and they are usually not classified as a separate | ||
aspect; they are just `Aspect=Imp.` | ||
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Note: This value is new in UD v2 but a similar value has been used in UD v1 | ||
as language-specific for Hungarian, though it was called _frequentative_ there | ||
(`Freq`). | ||
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#### Examples | ||
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* [hu] _üt_ “hit”, _<b>ütöget</b>_ “hit several times” | ||
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### <a name="Frus">`Frus`</a>: frustative aspect | ||
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"Frustrative is a grammatical marker that expresses the non-realization of some expected outcome implied by the proposition expressed in the marked clause." (Overall 2017) | ||
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"The frustrative is a functional element found in a number of languages which expresses, in its typical use, that an action did not have its intended consequences [...]" (Salanova) | ||
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'The frustrative particle in Kimaragang marks unrealized expectations or intentions, counter- | ||
factuals, etc." (Kroeger 2017) | ||
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#### References | ||
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Kroeger, Paul. 2017. Frustration, culmination, and inertia in Kimaragang grammar. *Glossa: a journal of general linguistics* 2(1): 56. 1–29, DOI: [https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.146](https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.146) | ||
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Overall, S. (2017). A Typology of Frustrative Marking in Amazonian Languages. In A. Aikhenvald & R. Dixon (Eds.), *The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology* (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics, pp. 477-512). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316135716.015 | ||
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Salanova, Andrés Pablo. *A semantics for frustratives.* [https://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/files/linguistics/a_semantics_for_frustratives.pdf](https://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/files/linguistics/a_semantics_for_frustratives.pdf) | ||
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#### Examples | ||
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Examples cited by Avila (2021) (our English translation): | ||
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* [yrl] _Indé rewewé <b>yepé</b> kutara [...] _ “You were flying fast in vain [...]” (Casasnovas, 93) | ||
* [yrl] _Apurakí-putari <b>yepé</b>, ixé se maraari. _ “I wanted to work, but I'm tired.” (Magalhães, 96, adap.) | ||
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