Aspect

at the moment under consideration (present, past or future) or

Non-continuous aspect:
extensive
a momentary action:
She dropped the plate.
a recurrent action:
I get up at 8 o’clock.
an action or state, which lasts a long period of time:
He went to school from 1958 to 1968.
an action or state of unlimited duration:
They suffer a lot.

the help of the opposition of continuous and non-continuous (common)

Continuous form is marked by a discontinuous morpheme be + -ing.
She was playing the piano when someone knocked.

Non-continuous form is unmarked.
She played the piano twice a day.

the desk. = A young man was sitting1 at the

Terminative and Non-Terminative Verbs

long.
In the end, he sat there and lighted up a

2. Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases
(that actualize the aspective meaning of double aspective verbs)

писал = he wrote, he was writing