Re: Aspect Question
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 25, 2003, 5:05 |
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 08:34:43PM -0800, Jim Grossmann wrote:
> Here's hoping someone answers this question:
>
> What's the grammatical term for an aspect that conveys the idea of action
> occuring starting at some point and continuing indefinitely. In other
> words, what's the term for the "from then on & from now on" aspect?
[snip]
The continuous, I suppose? Or perhaps the imperfective, which implies
something that began but hasn't completed yet.
T
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