infelicitous translation of the word вид.111 It would be preferable to define aspect more literally, as the temporal phase or phases about which the speaker or writer is speaking, rather than the phases they have “in view.” Johnson takes just such an approach, building on Reichenbach’s work on tenses and that of Bennett and Partee on aspect and truth conditions.112 She distinguishes “three categories of time which are significant in relation to an act of speaking.” The “speech time” (S) is “the time
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