The aim of the present paper is to highlight the role of semelfactive verbs in the lexical –
semantic and aspectual formulation of verbs for their ability to enter into the relationships of aspectual partnership. Considerable amount of attention has been given so far to the importance of the lexical verb meaning in the science on the subject. Our intention will be to identify one of the possible solutions, which aims at reconciling the multiplicity and variety of approaches towards the identification of aspectual pairs