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• n  aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb
• s  beginning to develop
  inchoative stages

• It's an inchoative, and it is an example of a syntactic construction which can be used (among other things) to suppress agency; but English is full of agency-suppressing syntax.
• It's an inchoative, and it is an example of a syntactic construction which can be used (among other things) to suppress agency; but English is full of agency-suppressing syntax.

• inchoative aspect