Iterative aspect

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The iterative aspect is a grammatical aspect that expresses the repetition of an event.^[1]

References [edit]

^ Comrie, Bernard. 1985a.Causative verb formation and other verb-deriving morphology. In Shopen, Timothy (editor). 1985a.Language typology and syntactic description. 3 volumes. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

v t e Grammatical and lexical aspects

Complete vs. incomplete	Perfective Aorist Momentane Semelfactive^# Imperfective Continuous and progressive Delimitative Imperfect Iterative/distributive/frequentative^#

Generic vs. episodic	Gnomic Habitual

Beginning vs. ending	Inchoative aspect/verb^# Cessative

Relative time	Perfect (Retrospective) Prospective

^#Lexical aspects. Grammatical aspects unmarked.

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