LEXICAL ASPECT IN SPANISH: CONTRASTS, SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES AND SEMANTIC INTERPRETATIONS.

The different distinctions related to lexical aspect-state, activity, accomplishments and achievements-play an important role in the grammar of Spanish, but many of the details about how these distinctions can be implemented are unclear: which features distinguish between the classes, how the classes relate to each other, what is the nature of telicity or dynamicity and how one can account for the alternations that a verb is subject to involving its aspect are some of the most important problems from this perspective. The goal of this article is to provide a sufficient empirical base to address these questions and present the current alternatives to answer them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]