The delimitative aspect is a

grammatical aspect In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how an action, event, or state, as denoted by a verb, extends over time. Perfective aspect is used in referring to an event conceived as bounded Boundedness or bounded may refe ...

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 v ...

is often marked by reduplication of the verb. For details see Chinese grammar§Aspects.

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