Aspect in Relation

to Syntactic and
Semantic Analysis
Rivalda Rachma Lianty 19211141009
Galuh Tri Banowati 19211141011
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Syntactic vs Semantic
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Syntactic analysis is
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grammatical structure of a clause
meaning and interpretation words,
thu which being analysed through
signs, and sentence structure. While
the rules of formal grammar.
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such as hyponyms, polysemy,
signs, symbols are play important
role on this analysis.
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Syntactic and Semantic analysis are facilitated by aspect as
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an easy analysis tool through predicate analysis.
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Predicate is generally divided into two, they are stative and
fri dynamic predicates. Stative predicate marks a verb as
stative activity while dynamic predicate marks a verb as a
running and continuing activity .
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ASPECT
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Aspect refers to the connection between grammatical
thu
and lexical which expressed in predicates or
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 a verb form that indicates time-related characteristics,
such as the completion, duration, or repetition of an
action
 Type of Aspects

Progressive & Prospective & Punctual &

Retrogressive Retrospective Durative

Ingressive,
Telic &
Continuative &
Atelic
egressive
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Progressive&
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thu
Retrogressive
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Retrogressive
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Is aspect that express The present perfect, or present
thu ongoing situation or retrospective, form, in affirmative
continuous statements, refers to events that
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occurred in the past and situations that
Ex: Jack is smoking began in the past and which are seen as
relevant ‘now,’ at the present time.

Ex: They have left

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wed Prospective &

thu

fri
Retrospective
 Prospective Retrosprective
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thu
Verbs as ask and think-of
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Prospective verbs; they are
oriented toward later happenings
Verbs like apologize and deny are
retrospective because to an event which
have done as a whole in the past form

• Edgar apologized for missing

• We asked Ronald to drive
the meeting
slower.
• Jessica is thinking of visiting • We denied seeing the report
her grandmother
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Punctual & Durative
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thu

fri
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wed Punctual Durative

thu

fri Aspect that express duration

Aspect that express no
duration
Ex: John sat there for two hours
Ex: John sat down on a chair. without speaking.
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Ingressive, Continuative
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thu

fri
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tue Ingressive Continuity Egressive

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thu Is aspect that express Is aspect that express punctual verbs which express the end of
an event, the act of durative verbs being location
fri coming into a state of
remembering, feeling, Ex: Donald stays / remains Ex: Donald leaves / departs from
knowing. at
e.g.
I suddenly
remembered that I had
an appointment
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Telic & Atelic
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thu

fri
 Atelic, the predicates do not have an end or a goal.

● George was waiting (stative)

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tue ● Sandra was swimming (activity)

wed Telic, an event which having an end of the result but not instant result.

thu ● George was leaving (achievement)

fri ● Sandra was writing a letter (accomplishment)

● states are not dynamic, durative & atelic

● Activities are dynamic, durative & atelic

● Achievement are dynamic, instantaneous & telic

● Accomplishment are dynamic, durative & telic

 Conclusion
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wed It can be concluded that Aspect is a medium or tool

to analyze in both aspects of language, namely
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semantic and syntactic.
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