VARIOUS CRITERIA OF INTRALINGUAL ASPECTUAL CATEGORIZATION

Dumitru MELENCIUC, Silviana CUPCIC Moldova State University

Аннотация

Grammatical, lexical-grammatical, lexical, contextual and prosodic means in Modern English are part of the aspectual conceptual category, consisting of marked and unmarked members of the opposition. In the present article we would like to analyze some minor aspectual means existing in English, with occasional examples concerning Romanian and some other European languages. Diachronically the dominant categorial forms can become subservient to more competitive means. In Early English lexical and contextual means ceded the priority to the perfective-imperfective opposition, which in its turn is now subservient to the taxonomy of continuous – non-continuous aspect. In the Romance languages the durative forms have mainly a stylistic aspectual function. The same tendency in the use of continuous aspect in the English language. Keywords: grammatical category, lexical-grammatical category, lexical aspectual forms; marked forms, unmarked forms, conceptual category.