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Originally Posted by shun  We have often heard that there are continuous aspect and perfective aspect, but when have they started to claim Simple Present to be an aspect? Can you quote any sources on the web that claim Simple Present is "aspect"?
As for English tense, aspect is a special word and "habitual" is not an aspect. |
1. I haven't claimed that the simple present is an aspect.
2. The simple present can indeed have habitual aspect. See:
http://www.mfi.uni-miskolc.hu/toltessy/aspects.htm
3. Here is a site which explains habitual aspect:
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/Gloss...tualAspect.htm
MrP