https://etudesslaves.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/etudesslaves/index.php?id=1993 Index des publications de auteurs Žana GAVRILOVIĆ fr 0 https://etudesslaves.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/etudesslaves/index.php?id=1984 The research explores the cause-and-effect relationship between the lexical aspectual features of certain groups of English verbs and their inflectional environment, as well as their confluence with the overall sentential environment. Being an inherent part of their meaning (Comrie 1976), lexical aspectual properties (Aktionsart) such as durativity, stativity, and dynamicity are, according to specific types of verbs, expressed either non-progressively or progressively in sentential context. The main premise of this research is that the inflected forms of certain groups of English verbs may ascribe to their somewhat different meaning of the internal temporal structure of verb situations that they express. Applying the distributional and componential analysis methods reveals that the progressive use of stative verbs may change their inherent property of stativity into dynamicity and thus color the whole context in one of the three levels of meaning typical for the progressive form (Leech 2004). The items for the analysis are excerpted from contemporary British prose and the results indicate the considerable influence of the grammatical aspect on the lexical aspectual properties of particular groups of verbs. ven., 11 avril 2025 00:50:52 +0200 lun., 19 mai 2025 11:43:38 +0200 https://etudesslaves.edel.univ-poitiers.fr:443/etudesslaves/index.php?id=1984