... they operate uniformly across more than one language and it will describe how the parameter- based approach is currently being used as the basis for extraction of aspectual information from ... representation model for machine translation presented by Dorr (1991) integrates aspectual information with lexical-semantic information by means of parameteriza- tion. The parameter-based approach borrows ... aspectual features [+d,- t,-a] for the verb ransack, [+d,+t,-a] for the verb destroy, and [+d,+t,+a] for the verb obliterate, thus providing the appropriate distinction for cases such as (4)....