toward a definition of Verbal Apect

Steven R. Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Tue Nov 5 00:39:28 EST 2002


On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 06:16 PM, Mark Wilson wrote:

> How do you distinguish an Imperfect from a Present. Without time,
> all you are left with is the same aspect, right?

Or, for that matter, an aorist from a future? These seem somehow 
related in that both have the S tense formative in active and middle as 
well as QH(S) forms distinguishing passive from middle. As far as I can 
tell, they also seem to be aspectually identical. Though some argue 
that the aspect of the future is sometimes external, sometimes 
internal, this seems nothing more than the result of the same kinds of 
contextual influences that would lead us to the same conclusion for the 
aorist, if we didn't know better.
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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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