The category of aspect

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1. The category of aspect
2. It is the form of the verb
3. The perfectiveПрочиталСделалNon-perfective ЧиталСделалThere are two aspects in
4. As there are no such clear-cut distinctions
5. Russian grammarians recognize the existence of such
6. By lexical means they understand the lexical
7. On the other hand, our grammarians claim
8. As to their meaning the marked member
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It is the form of the verb which shows the character of the action from the point of view of its progress or its completion.ASPECT

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Слайд 1Карпова Александра РП-31
The category of aspect

Слайд 2It is the form of the verb which shows the

character of the action from the point of view of

its progress or its completion.

ASPECT

It is the form of the verb which shows the character of the action from the point

Слайд 3The perfective
Прочитал
Сделал
Non-perfective
Читал
Сделал

There are two aspects in the Russian language

which differ both in form and in meaning:

The perfectiveПрочиталСделалNon-perfective ЧиталСделалThere are two aspects in the Russian language which differ both in form and in

Слайд 4As there are no such clear-cut distinctions between English verbs,

many foreign grammarians are of the opinion that such a

category does not exist in the English language.
They speak of only tense distinctions and thus find four groups of tenses:
Indefinite
Continuous,
Perfect
Perfect continuous

As there are no such clear-cut distinctions between English verbs, many foreign grammarians are of the opinion

Слайд 5Russian grammarians recognize the existence of such a category in

the English verb and say that aspect in English may

be expressed in two ways: by lexical and grammatical means.

Russian grammarians recognize the existence of such a category in the English verb and say that aspect

Слайд 6By lexical means they understand the lexical character of the

verb. It’s a well-known fact that English verbs fall under

two classes:
terminative (those which denote an action implying a certain limit beyond which it cannot go: to come, to stop, to complete, etc.)
durative (those which denote an action which does not imply any limit, that is without an end in view: to study, to carry, to keep, etc.)

By lexical means they understand the lexical character of the verb. It’s a well-known fact that English

Слайд 7On the other hand, our grammarians claim that aspect distinctions

in English may be expressed by means of grammatical forms.

The most widely spread view on this point is that the category of aspect is expressed through the opposition of continuous/ non-continuous (or common) aspect forms (asks- is asking) in which the Common aspect is the unmarked member, whereas the Continuous aspect is marked, its marker is the combination “be + ing”.

On the other hand, our grammarians claim that aspect distinctions in English may be expressed by means

Слайд 8As to their meaning the marked member (the Continuous aspect)

has a specialized clear-cut meaning of an action in its

progress, developing at a given moment;

the unmarked member (the Common aspect) is very general, it represents an action as merely a state or a fact, therefore the best way of defining it is negatively, that is denoting no duration at all.