New perspectives in analyzing aspectual distinctions across languages

Abstract

There is a clear distinction between an event – the word is taken here in a broad sense – and the description of a given event by some speaker on some occasion. A famous murder in the antique world involved two participants, Brutus and Caesar, some activity on the part of the former and some changes that happened to the latter: first, he was alive, and then, he was not alive. These and other features of the event – the time and the place at which it happened and the instrument which Brutus used – are part of reality. A speaker, faced with the task of giving a fairly accurate description of this event, has a number of options. He may or may not choose to take into account some of the entities – persons and objects – that are involved:

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