Semelfactive - Lexical Aspect

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In linguistics, semelfactives are a class of aktionsart or lexical verbal aspect. That is, they are a category of how, if at all, time flows (aspect) in the occurrence of an action or situation; this aspect is incorporated into the root verb itself (lexically) rather than being expressed grammatically by inflections or auxiliary verbs. Specifically, semelfactives deal with events that are instantaneous (momentive, or punctual). They are a type of perfective aspect, this broader category referring to actions or situations that are viewed as a single unit or block of time without reference to any internal flow of time.

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• Assisted by: Antigone Fernande (Editor)
• Publisher: Betascript Publishing
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• Released: 19.03.2012
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