Effektivität und effektive Aspektonymie : ein kontrastiver Beitrag zur tschechisch-deutschen Aktionsartenforschung

The article presents a newly defined system of the grammatical categories aspect, aktionsart and verb type (character). The aim is to explain the existence of semantically marked perfective verbs in Czech which express the last phase of the process expressed by the imperfective verb and/or its effective/resultative character – the successful completion (e.g. dočkat se and čekat). There are similarities in German and other languages (e.g. suchen and finden, search and find). The paper describes not only the position of these verbs in the aspectological system, but the relations between the two given verbs (the effective and the imperfective) as well.