[B-Greek] Are there any aspect only languages?

Con R. Campbell con.campbell at moore.edu.au
Wed Sep 20 03:11:31 EDT 2006


I believe Indonesian and Mandarin do not grammaticalize tense, but I don't
know if they grammaticalize aspect or not in the verbs.

Con Campbell
Moore College


On 20/9/06 1:30 PM, "Donald R. Vance, Ph.D." <donaldrvance at mac.com> wrote:

> B-Greekers:
> Are there, in fact, any modern languages which are aspect only (i.e.,
> whose verbs are grammaticalized for aspect only and all temporal
> placement is handled otherwise--use of adverbs, etc.)?
> 
> Donald R. Vance, Ph.D.
> Professor of Biblical Languages and Literature
> Oral Roberts University
> dvance at oru.edu
> donaldrvance at mac.com
> 
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