Delimitative aspect

The delimitative aspect is a grammatical aspect that indicates that a situation lasts only a certain amount of time.[1] It is sometimes called durative aspect. Polish: stałem i gadałem – "I stood and chatted" compared with postałem i pogadałem = "I stood and chatted for a while" (the prefix po- marking the delimitative aspect in this example).

Delimitative aspect in Chinese is often marked by reduplication of the verb. For details see Chinese grammar§Aspects.

References
  1. Stephen Dickey. 2007. "A prototype account of the development of delimitative po- in Russian". In Dagmar Divjak and Agata Kochańska, Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 329–373.


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