<div dir="auto">Sure, Chinese seems to be a parade example of this feature in the literature</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 28 Jul 2025, 22:57 Artem Fedorinchyk, <<a href="mailto:artem.fedorinqyk@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">artem.fedorinqyk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Maybe Chinese is not the best example in terms of coding aspects but not tenses but it comes quite close. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 at 20:42, Sergey Loesov via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Christian,</p>
<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">Thanks you for your message! Indeed, German is well known for lacking grammatical
aspect. But are there languages whose verbal morphology (along with productive
periphrastic constructions) encodes only aspectual meanings, with tense always
inferred pragmatically as an implicature?</span></p>
<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">Best,</span></p>
<p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">Sergey</span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 at 19:21, Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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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>Am 27.07.2025 um 17:20 schrieb Sergey
Loesov via Lingtyp:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear
colleagues,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span 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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank
you very much!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sergey</span></p>
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