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| 1 | This paper examines the problem of defining the category of aspect of action denotation in English in general, and quantitative aspect in particular. The main focus of the article is on the specific features of quantitative aspect in English, namely the semantics of incomplete action. This particular aspect is associated with the idea of an action as unfinished, occurring in a limited period of time, or insufficient to achieve its full result as is ‘expected’ of it. In Slavic aspectology, the category of aspect, or ‘view’, and the methods of action denotation are quite rigorously studied from the point of view of cognitive linguistics. Modern research also confirms that prefixed verbs with a diminutive meaning and other meanings close to it are widespread in the languages of the Slavic group, which is explained by the well-established processes of prefixation in these languages and the peculiarities of the linguistic picture of the world by native speakers of these languages. At the same time, the study of such semantics in English is practically not represented in modern linguistics. In this study, we analyzed and described the main means of expressing quantitative aspect in the English language and their connection with diminutive semantics, exploring how these elements interact and what they contribute to the overall structure of the language. Particular attention is paid to the study of grammatical and lexical tools, such as analytical constructions, namely adverbial units (a little, for a while, lightly, etc.), verbs with the suffixes -le, and -er and the prefix under-, phrasal verbs, particularly in the context of their productivity in terms of denoting quantitative aspect. Keywords: English language, aspectual meanings, quantitative aspect, semantics of incomplete action, diminutive semantics | 62 | ||||