[Lingtyp] once again about perfective vs. imperfective aspect

[Sergey Loesov]

Dear colleagues,

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?

Thank you very much!

Sergey
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