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Aspect: aspect

Aspect is a lexical feature of verbs that specifies the duration and completion of action in time.

Slovenian grammar distinguishes two aspect values: imperfect and perfect. Pairs of imperfective and perfective verbs exist and are often morphologically related, but the verbs are considered to belong to separate lemmas.

Imp: imperfect aspect

The action took / takes / will take some time span and there is no information whether and when it was / will be completed.

Perf: perfect aspect

The action has been / will have been completed. Since there is emphasis on one point on the time scale (the point of completion).

Verbs without Aspect

Verbs without Aspect are considered to be biaspectual, i.e. they can either denote duration or completion, but their actual interpretation depends on the context.

Conversion from JOS

Verbs with Aspect=perfective are converted to Aspect=Perf, verbs with Aspect=imperfective are converted Aspect=Imp and verbs with Aspect=biaspectual are not assigned the Aspect feature.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Slovenian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Imp, Perf.

12449 tokens (9%) have a non-empty value of Aspect. 6136 types (19%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Aspect. 2218 lemmas (13%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Aspect. The feature is used with 1 part-of-speech tags: sl-pos/VERB (12449; 9% instances).

VERB

12449 sl-pos/VERB tokens (72% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Aspect.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Aspect co-occurred: Negative=EMPTY (12079; 97%), Tense=EMPTY (7722; 62%), Person=EMPTY (7475; 60%), Mood=EMPTY (7475; 60%), Number=Sing (6735; 54%), VerbForm=Part (6253; 50%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Aspect:

Paradigm mislitiImpPerf
Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Partmislil
Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|VerbForm=Partmislili
Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Partmislila
Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Partmislilo
Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Finmislim, Mislm
Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Finmisli, mislmisl
Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Finmislimo
Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Finmislijo
VerbForm=Infmisliti

Aspect seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 100% lemmas (2215) occur only with one value of Aspect.

Relations with Agreement in Aspect

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Aspect: VERB –[conj]–> VERB (790; 59%), VERB –[mwe]–> VERB (1; 100%).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Slovenian-SST)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Imp, Perf.

2871 tokens (10%) have a non-empty value of Aspect. 1338 types (22%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Aspect. 676 lemmas (17%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Aspect. The feature is used with 1 part-of-speech tags: sl-pos/VERB (2871; 10% instances).

VERB

2871 sl-pos/VERB tokens (62% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Aspect.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Aspect co-occurred: Negative=EMPTY (2659; 93%), Gender=EMPTY (1953; 68%), Number=Sing (1745; 61%), VerbForm=Fin (1722; 60%), Tense=Pres (1523; 53%), Mood=Ind (1523; 53%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Aspect:

Paradigm pastiImpPerf
Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Partpadel
Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|VerbForm=Partpasli
Gender=Fem|Number=Plur|VerbForm=Partpadle
Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Partpadlo
Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Finpadeš
VerbForm=Infpasti

Aspect seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 100% lemmas (675) occur only with one value of Aspect.

Relations with Agreement in Aspect

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Aspect: VERB –[conj]–> VERB (136; 51%), VERB –[reparandum]–> VERB (29; 78%), VERB –[conj:extend]–> VERB (2; 67%).


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