Aktionsartn.
/ˈaktsɪəʊnˌzɑːt/, U.S. /ˈæktsioʊnˌsɑr(t)/ Grammar.
The aspect, or kind of action, described by a verb (as perfect, imperfect, etc.); the lexical class to which a verb belongs by virtue of the type of process, state, etc., that it denotes.
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Aktionsart1897
1895 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 16 143 Brugmann in his Greek Grammar uses the term Aktionsart, which is quite an improvement upon Curtius' term [sc. eintretende].]
1897 E. Purdie (title) The perfective 'Aktionsart' in Polybius.
1923 D. L. O'Leary Comp. Gram. Semitic Langs. i. 19 The discarding of case endings [in Arabic]..as well as the development of a time sense in tenses rather than the earlier aktionsart.
1962 R. W. Zandvoort in F. Behre Contributions to Eng. Syntax & Philol. 3 Towards the end, ‘character’ is differentiated from ‘aspect’... We have an echo here of the German distinction between ‘Aspect’ and ‘Aktionsart’.
1990 Language 66 254 The ‘direct object restriction’..correlates naturally with the Aktionsart of the construction.
2005 R. D. Van Valin Exploring Syntax-semantics Interface ii. 59 In order to determine the argument structure of the verb, it is first necessary to ascertain its Aktionsart in the construction in which it occurs.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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