ASPECT Aspectual verbs
Definition
Verbs expressing aspect of another action: start, keep, stop, begin, continue, finish, etc.
Detection Rules
mfte
cql[lemma={words} & pos="VB.*"]
Word list (10 items)
begin
start
continue
keep
stop
finish
cease
complete
end
resume
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Examples
You should just keep talking.
Source: le_foll_2024
I started early today.
Source: le_foll_2024
Sources
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version