This contribution is based upon the idea that it is only possible to talk of procedural verb classes but not of verb classes tout court because the verb always occurs in a context that in most cases is crucial in order to establish the characteristic procedural features of the verb. The context may also concern phasal aspectual operators. The possibility to accept or to reject a phasal aspectual operator is decisive for categorizing a verb with a particular procedural class. With this property in mind, one can notice that shifts from one procedural class to another may occur.
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