The delimitative aspect is a grammatical aspect that indicates that a situation lasts only a certain amount of time. It is sometimes called durative aspect.
In Polish, stałem i gadałem 'I stood and chatted' contrasts with postałem i pogadałem 'I stood and chatted for a while' (the prefix po- marking the delimitative aspect in this example).
Delimitative aspect in Chinese is often marked by reduplication of the verb. For details see Chinese grammar§Aspects.
References
- Dickey, Stephen M. (2007). "A prototype account of the development of delimitative po- in Russian". In Divjak, Dagmar; Kochańska, Agata (eds.). Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 329–373. doi:10.1515/9783110198799.4.329. ISBN 978-3-11-019620-7.
| Grammatical and lexical aspects | |
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| Complete vs. incomplete | |
| Generic vs. episodic | |
| Beginning vs. ending | |
| Relative time | |
| Lexical aspects. Grammatical aspects unmarked. | |
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