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

Ben Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Wed Sep 20 12:37:37 EDT 2006


On Wed 20 Sep 2006 (05:22:39), mitchlarramore at yahoo.com wrote:
> It seems to me that if there were one, it would end up
> like Porter's view of Koine Greek where one tense is
> almost always used for past, one almost always used
> for future, and one almost always used for the
> present.

 Well, there's Russian, which uses the Imperfective for the Present, the
 Perfective for the Future, and a participle agreeing with its subject
 (as if it were an adjective) for the Past.

 Ben Crick
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