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Tamil aspectual verbs provide commentary
about the manner in which an action occurred, especially how it began or
ended, whether it was intentional or unintentional, whether it had an effect
on the speaker or on someone else, whether it continued, was interrupted, is
habitual, and so on. Some of these notions are what have been considered
ASPECTUALThis term comes from Russian vid which means
`point of view'. in other languages (having to do with the completion or
non-completion, the continuity or duration, the manner of inception or
completion) but some have little or no relation semantically to classical
notions of aspect. These `extended' uses of aspectual verbs sometimes
therefore involve value judgments by the speaker about the actions of others,
i.e. they indicate what the speaker's attitude about the verbal action
in question is.
Vasu Renganathan
Sat Nov 2 21:16:08 EST 1996