[Lingtyp] once again about perfective vs. imperfective aspect

[Artem Fedorinchyk]

Maybe Chinese is not the best example in terms of coding aspects but not
tenses but it comes quite close.

On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 at 20:42, Sergey Loesov via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> Dear Christian,
>
> 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?
>
> Best,
>
> Sergey
>
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 at 19:21, Christian Lehmann via Lingtyp <
> lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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