Aspect of the Greek Verb

Eric S. Weiss eweiss at gte.net
Mon Dec 16 23:53:18 EST 2002


Different grammars/teachers/authors use different terms for the three
aspects:

a. continuous, undefined, and perfect (William Mounce - GREEK FOR THE REST
OF US (to be published March 2003)

b. linear, punctilear, and combined (Edward Goodrick - DO IT YOURSELF
HEBREW AND GREEK)

c. imperfective, perfective, and stative (Stanley Porter - IDIOMS OF THE
GREEK NEW TESTAMENT).

Using Mounce's terminology (a. above), their respective terms would be
similarly defined by all these teachers as something like:
    1. Continuous: action seen as in progress 
    2. Undefined: action seen as complete or viewed as a whole 
    3. Perfect: action seen as reflecting a state, focusing on either the
completed nature of the past action(s) that resulted in the state, or on
the state itself



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