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Current work on the semantics of aspect divides predicates into different aspectual categories: stative predicates, process predicates, and event predicates. This classification is based on a number of tests. For example, contrast (1) below illustrates the fact that the progressive is unacceptable with stative predicates; contrast (2) the fact that, barring iterative readings,1 durational for-adverbs are only appropriate with stative predicates and process predicates; and contrast (3) the fact that in-adverbs are appropriate with predicates of events but not with predicates of processes.
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Zucchi, S. (1998). Aspect Shift. In: Rothstein, S. (eds) Events and Grammar. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3969-4_15
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