ASPECT AND GRAMMATICAL FORM OF STATES IN KURMANJI

ASPECT AND GRAMMATICAL FORM OF STATES IN KURMANJI

The term aspect is related to the internal temporal structure of a situation described by a verb.There are two main types of aspect: grammatical aspect and lexical aspect. These two aspecttypes combine and interact in a sentence to give aspectual meaning (Smith). But some verbsbecause of their lexical property can’t be used in some grammatical aspects. The typical exampleof this phenomenon is that some verbs do not occur in the progressive in English. Kurmanji isflexible in that sense but there are some verbs, because of their intense stativity, cannot be usedin the grammatical forms of the progressive aspect; to give such meaning they are used in pastparticiple with copula. Posture verbs and related verbs like sleep and some verbs of contact andholding are such verbs. The aim of this paper is to show and discuss that feature of Kurmanji.However, the paper, if not in detail, gives place to grammatical and lexical aspect in Kurmanjiin general, discusses the impact of both aspects on each other and finally shows the impact ofaspects of foreign languages on the Kurmanji.

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