| Lemma | phasal aspect |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Dik (1989) |
| Titolo | The theory of functional grammar. Part I: the structure of the clause |
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| Citazioni | By “Phasal Aspect” I understand those aspectual distinctions which bear on the phase in which a certain entity finds itself in relation to the occurrence of some SoA [state of affairs] in which that entity participates. More generally, Phasal Aspect distinctions can be described in terms of the following schema:
(16) What can be said on the basis of information
available at some reference point ti about the
occurrence of some SoA [state of affairs] at some
interval tj (where tj may or may not overlap with ti)?
The different values that ti can take in relation to tj can be laid out as follows:
(17) SoA
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7
The different possible Phasal Aspect distinctions can be defined in relation to the reference points in (17):
(18) 1 Prospective “John is going to cry”
2 Immediate Prospective “John is about to cry”
3 Ingressive “John starts crying”
4 Progressive “John is crying”
5 Egressive “John stops crying”
6 Recent perfect “John has just cried”
7 Perfect “John has cried”
Phasal Aspects thus have a temporal component, but their semantics is more complex than just locating the SoA on the temporal axis. |