[Lingtyp] once again about perfective vs. imperfective aspect

[Christian Lehmann]

Dear Sergey,

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?

Cheers, Christian

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Am 27.07.2025 um 17:20 schrieb Sergey Loesov via Lingtyp:
>
> 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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