Abstract
It is a standard assumption that situation-type aspects (aktionsarts) are lexically marked on the predicate. However, in Oḍia, they can be grammatically expressed with a closed set of auxiliaries. As for the grammatically marked (viewpoint) aspects, Oḍia has a progressive marker but no overt perfective or imperfective. The so called ‘perfective marker’, which is also the ‘conjunctive participle’ marker, is given a unified analysis as a verb linearizer. The present analysis shows that the perfectivity in Oḍia is marked by the sequence of an eventive verb and a copular auxiliary; that is, when an event is followed by a state. It is observed that the progressive morpheme, across languages, remains uninterpretable without world-time features; in contrast, the imperfective morpheme drops them. In fact, the paper proposes the ‘imperfective’ and the ‘simple present’ as parametrically alternative constructions which do not check world-time features. Although the progressive is invariably tensed its aspectual value varies for different languages. While its value is [+Dynamic] for Oḍia, for English its value is [−Telic]. Whether the progressive has the aspectual value [+Dynamic] or [−Telic] is a parametric choice for the language.
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