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perfective aspect

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Noun1.perfective aspect - the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action
perfective
aspect - the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb
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Neither of these constraints can have been strong enough to extend its use to a general application to function as past marker, subjunctive marker, habitual aspect marker, perfective aspect marker, etc.
What makes a syntactic change stop? On the decline of periphrastic do ... by Wischer, Ilse / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
It is worth noting that this presentation of the past as psychological present is realized syntactically in the perfective aspect, that form of the verb that most implies the past's direct relevance to the present: it reinforces the sense that those whom Pound has thought of as living are indeed `persons just gone'.
Prefiguring Cantonic time: temporal categories in the collected ... by Wilson, Peter / Yearbook of English Studies
In this sentence there is a high level of transitivity: the sentence reports on a change; its subject can be considered human, the situation is dynamic; the sentence is a statement, is realistic, it does not formulate a question, the verb is of perfective aspect and telic; the object is concrete, countable, identifiable and definite (Kortvely 2005 : 150, 155).
On the 3rd person verbal mark er *-sV and the definite conjugation in ... by Kunnap, Ago / Linguistica Uralica
 
 
 
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