aspect question

[E Wayles Browne]

Frank, are you trying to find an equivalent for the distinction that seems to exist in English between
"I watched her throw the ball" 
and
"I watched her throwing the ball" ?
It's similar to aspect distinctions in Slavic, but in English it seems to be less reliable a distinction.
Wayles
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Wayles Browne, Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

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Quoting "Gladney, Frank Y" <gladney at ILLINOIS.EDU>:

> Dear Russian speakers,
>
> How do you say "I watched her throw the ball"?
>
> Frank Y. Gladney
>
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