Delimitative aspect

The delimitative aspect is a grammatical aspect that indicates that a situation lasts only a certain amount of time.^[1] It is sometimes called durative aspect. Polish: stałem i gadałem - "I stood and chatted" compared 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[]

^ Stephen Dickey. 2007. "A prototype account of the development of delimitative po- in Russian". In Dagmar Divjak and Agata Kochańska, Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 329–373.

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[1] Stephen Dickey. 2007. "A prototype account of the development of delimitative po- in Russian". In Dagmar Divjak and Agata Kochańska, Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 329–373.

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v t Grammatical and lexical aspects
Complete vs. incomplete	Perfective Aorist Momentane Semelfactive^# Imperfective Continuous and progressive Delimitative Imperfect Iterative//frequentative^#
Generic vs. episodic	Gnomic Habitual
Beginning vs. ending	Inchoative aspect/verb^# Cessative
Relative time	Perfect (Retrospective) Prospective
^#Lexical aspects. Grammatical aspects unmarked.