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Comrie 1976

Comrie, Bernard (1976). Aspect: An introduction to the study of verbal aspect and related problems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

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1. In the terms of aspectual typology and the grammaticalization of tense–aspect–mood, the system uses optional analytic operators where an inflecting language would use bound morphology ; . no page Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality: Overview
2. Comrie's foundational account of aspect explicitly separates the aspectual category from tense precisely because many languages grammaticalize the former without the latter . no page Tenselessness and the Time-Reference System
3. The cross-linguistic grammaticalization of an existential or locative verb into a progressive or resultative auxiliary is well-attested typologically ; . no page The Existential-Aspect System: kor an Progressive and wa an Resultative-Perfect
4. Together these resources — kor an with frequentative context, ranke, and event-plural pa — occupy the space that a dedicated habitual morpheme fills in languages where habituality is morphologically distinct from aspect ; . no page Phasal, Iterative, and Habitual Aspect