[Lingtyp] once again about perfective vs. imperfective aspect

[Christian Lehmann]

Yucatec Maya is another case in point; please read Jürgen Bohnemeyer 
about it.

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Am 28.07.2025 um 19:41 schrieb Sergey Loesov:
>
> 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:
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>     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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