[B-Greek] simple test *AURION HLQON

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Tue Dec 13 09:25:31 EST 2005


For what it's worth, Modern Greek has two futures: an imperfective  
with QA + present subjunctive, and a perfective with QA + aorist  
subjunctive.

On Dec 13, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Ken Penner wrote:

>> I am apparently missing your point Randall. By definition, an event
>> that has not happened yet is viewed as incomplete and hence uses an
>> imperfective.
>> Don Vance
>
> Hi Don,
> Are you saying that all future and present events should be  
> expressed using
> an imperfective form of the verb and all past events using a  
> perfective
> form? If so, in your view, what is the difference between tense and  
> aspect?
>
> Ken Penner
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