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    <p>Dear Sergey,</p>
    <p>you may wish to specify your question. First of all, there are
      languages without any aspect at all, e.g. German. Second, there
      are languages with more than two aspects at the same morphological
      level, e.g. Yucatec Maya. So what exactly is the question?</p>
    <p>Cheers, Christian</p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 27.07.2025 um 17:20 schrieb Sergey
      Loesov via Lingtyp:<br>
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            colleagues,</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please
            allow me a naïve question:
            do we believe in a one-feature binary opposition of
            “perfective” vs.
            “imperfective” aspect in languages that, unlike English
            (e.g., yesterday he
            wrote ~ yesterday he was writing) or Spanish (ayer escribió
            ~ ayer estaba escribiendo),
            do not exhibit a clear-cut morphological distinction of this
            kind within the
            same tense, if I may put it as simply as possible?</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank
            you very much!</span></p>
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      <p style="font-size:90%">Prof. em. Dr. Christian Lehmann<br>
        Rudolfstr. 4<br>
        99092 Erfurt<br>
        <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Deutschland</span></p>
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            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:christianw_lehmann@arcor.de">christianw_lehmann@arcor.de</a></td>
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