Editing Lexical aspect (section)

===Comrie's classification===
In his discussion of lexical aspect, [[Bernard Comrie]] included the category [[semelfactive]] or punctual events such as "sneeze". His divisions of the categories were as follows: states, activities, and accomplishments are durative, but semelfactives and achievements are punctual. Of the durative verbs, states are unique as they involve no change, and activities are atelic (that is, have no "terminal point") whereas accomplishments are telic. Of the punctual verbs, semelfactives are atelic, and achievements are telic. The following table shows examples of lexical aspect in English that involve change (an example of a state is 'know').<ref name = "alonidekkerrothstein" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Comrie |first=Bernard |author-link=Bernard Comrie |date=1976 |title=Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn= 9784838401000|series=Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Punctual
!Durative
|-
!Telic
|Achievement<br/>(''to release'')
|Accomplishment<br/>(''to drown'')
|-
! Atelic
|Semelfactive<br/>(''to knock'')
|Activity<br/>(''to walk'')
|-
! Static
|
| State<br/>(''to know'')
|}