This paper discusses and introduces the verb classification and aktionsart of the Nuosu language. The Nuosu language has all kinds of the five aktionsart features which have been introduced by pioneer linguists Zeno Vendler (1967), David Dowty (1979), Carlota S. Smith (1997), Van Valin (2005) and Van Valin & LaPolla (1997). The verbs of Nuosu language can be classified into five categories: those that express ‘state', ‘activity', ‘achievement', ‘accomplishment' and ‘semelfactive'. It also discusses the opposition of the terms ‘aspect' and ‘aktionsart' in Nuosu language through distinguishing the concept opposition of ‘viewpoint aspect' and ‘situation aspect', ‘grammatical aspect' and ‘lexical aspect', ‘subjective aspect' and objective aspect, and so on.

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