ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how grammatical aspect provides different ways of viewing the Event Time (ET) structure by specifying how the ET intersects with a RT. It proposes that imperfective aspect presents a nucleus view of situations, asserting that the ET intersects the RT at the nucleus, and that perfective aspect presents a coda view of situations, asserting that the ET intersects the RT at the coda. The chapter explores on several interpretations attributed to grammatical aspect, including Habitual or Iterative aspect and Ingressive aspect. From the literature one would suppose every work on aspect to be required to offer a new definition of the phenomenon in general or a unique characterization of imperfective and perfective aspect in particular. Grammatical aspect presents different views of these situations: imperfective aspect views them at the nucleus, and perfective aspect at the coda. Imperfective aspect views the ET of a situation as intersecting the RT at its nucleus.
