[B-Greek] clarification

Jody Barnard jbnard at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jan 27 09:54:35 EST 2004


All this controversy concerning Porter’s analysis of
the verb has left me in need of some clarity
concerning crucial terminology.

Would I be right in thinking the following: 

The semantics of a verb tense refers to its entire
range of meaning, which it brings to given a context?
Whereas the pragmatics refers to the contextual
modification that the verb undergoes?

Actionsart is a view of the verb that considers it an
objectively defined action? Whereas aspect considers
the verb a subjectively defined action?

Please clarify and feel free to expand.

Thank you,

Jody Barnard. 


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