[B-Greek] Aspect Tutorial at TextKit site

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Oct 19 10:23:42 EDT 2004


I've just become aware of and read through a brief 2-part tutorial on
Ancient Greek Aspect, the parts done by Paul Bell and William Annis
respectively. While this short pieces (8 pages total for the 2 parts) don't
get into the nuances elaborated by Porter, Fanning, et al, it seems to me
that they set forth with admirable clarity and simplicity what is probably
the generally-agreed-upon conception of ancient Greek aspect; it's helpful
too that it clearly indicates the matching terms used by the grammarians
(e.g. durative/imperfective; punctual/perfective)  The "working definition"
of aspect is "aspect is the disclosure of a situation from the perspective
of internal temporal structure." The two parts are accessible as HTML pages
or can be downloaded in PDF format:

http://www.textkit.com/tutorials/20040713-aspect-part1-page1.php?aid=5&tid=6
and
http://www.textkit.com/tutorials/20040819-aspect-part2-page1.php?aid=2&tid=7

There's also a nice little piece by William Annis, "Notes on the Aorist
Morphology" rightly noting that there are three rather than two ancient
Greek aorists:

http://www.textkit.com/tutorials/20030901-aorist-page1.php?aid=2&tid=2
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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