"Aspecto" e "aspectualidade": coordenadas descritivas

Abstract

In this article I will first reflect on the nature and the constitution of both the category of aspect and the semantic notion of aspectuality in order to then render explicit the descriptive coordinates as applied to languages such as Portuguese, that is: I identify aspect as a property of languages which is particularly evident in the verb (better: verbal predicate), defining it (aspect) and characterizing its expressive processes and as well as the constituent typologies: lexical aspect ('processes', 'culminated processes', 'culminations', 'points' and 'states') and grammatical aspect ('inflexional' and 'periphrastic aspect'), finishing with a reference to its compositional nature.