The delimitative aspect is a
grammatical aspect that indicates that a situation lasts only a certain amount of time.
[Stephen Dickey. 2007. "A prototype account of the development of delimitative ''po-'' in Russian". In Dagmar Divjak and Agata Kochańska, ''Cognitive Paths into the Slavic Domain'', Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 329–373.] It is sometimes called ''durative aspect''. Polish: ''stałem i gadałem'' – "I stood and chatted" compared with ''postałem i pogadałem'' = "I stood and chatted for a while" (the prefix ''po-'' marking the delimitative aspect in this example).
Delimitative aspect in
Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
is often marked by
reduplication of the verb. For details see
Chinese grammar§Aspects.
References
Grammatical aspects
Russian grammar
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