Abstract:
Aspect is considered a structural and semantic feature of verbs. P. Natel Khanlari was the first grammarian who introduced it to Persian grammar، describing the properties of verbs in the ancient Persian. Then it was widely used by others in writing the grammar of the standard Farsi. Recently، many books and articles devoted lines or pages to clarify some of its features. However، it has been researched insufficiently، and in most cases under confusing terminologies. As a person who has taught Persian grammar for years، I can claim that the students of Farsi Language and Literature don’t make any distinctions between Aspect، Time، and Mood; they have no idea of different aspects of verbs and their functions. This article is an attempt to explore and explain grammatical features of Aspect in modern Farsi language، and its different types.
Machine summary:
This group of verbs in the past continuous or present continuous structure have not yet occurred at the moment of reporting, but if they occur, they create a stable situation: Ahmad was coming so that he would stay with us for a while, meaning he had not yet come and had not yet stayed, but if he had come, he would have stayed with us for a while.
In an article by her, we read: "In the Persian language, there are a number of verbs whose use in specific sentences or structures causes an aspectual performance in them, in such a way that their existence refers to the temporal design of a situation that exists in their complement.
Shahrzad Mahoutian in this work has presented the various types of aspects existing in the Persian language under the titles: perfective aspect, continuative aspect, habitual aspect, progressive aspect, inceptive aspect, terminative aspect, iterative aspect, discontinuative aspect, punctual aspect, and durative aspect; however, since this work was authored under the supervision of Bernard Comrie and its goal was to focus on comparative studies in the grammar of 60 common languages of the world (ibid, 2), only semantic issues have been addressed in its categories.
In this way, continuous structures cannot be presented as verb tenses as we see them in Persian grammar works, but rather they are different aspects of the same tenses existing in the Persian language that refer to different temporal capacities.
It seems that besides the structures of imperfect past, perfect imperfect past, and present continuous, another type of verb in the Persian language also possesses the feature of morphological aspect.
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