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Preferred term

inchoative aspect  

Broader concept

Example

  • [The verb phrases "have nothing to do" and "had no pictures or conversations in it" are states; "had peeped" is an event; "was beginning" is a special case at it signals the beginning of a state (inchoative aspect). (Friedrich, Xue & Palmer, 2023)
  • The viewpoint theory of lexical encoding allows situations in a sentence to bring to focus particular sub-parts of the event structure i.e. one situation may focus on the beginning endpoint and the sentence will have inchoative aspect and another with the same verb may focus on the end point and it will be perfective etc. (Chung & Huang, 2021)

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