Begin and Start: Aspect and complement choice
Begin and Start: Aspect and complement choice

Summary/Abstract: The paper offers a semantic analysis of begin and start and their non-finite complementation: the to-infinitive and -ing complementation. The core idea of the paper is that the aspectual constructions start+infinitive, start+ ing, begin+ infinitive, begin + ing have both a schematic and prototypical meaning and the subtle differences between them are motivated by several factors, like viewing, temporality, dynamicity.

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