It is well known that some English verbs and expansions thereof name states rather than events or processes. It is also known that linked to the inherent durative aspect of stative verbs there is another, nonaspectual, feature: such verbs are not used with an active (agential) subject. However, we must not conclude from this that nonstative verbs necessarily name activities. It is easy to find examples of events and processes which are not activities. The co‐occurrence restrictions which define aspectual categories such as event or process are quite distinct from those which lead to the activity‐nonactivity categorization. The system must include both dimensi