[B-Greek] Verbal Aspect clarification
Eddie Mishoe
edmishoe at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 25 10:23:35 EST 2007
Mitch:
I think you've just about got it. Ill try to help
you, but others more qualified will need to correct
me.
Lexical Aspect would view the unfolding (or lack
thereof) of the event (not WHEN it happens) described
by the lexeme if it were in a vacuum. Grammatical
Aspects would view the temporalness (of lack thereof)
of the FORM added to the lexeme, and it too would view
this Aspect in a vacuum. But the Grammatical Aspect,
in addition to its temporal contribution, also relates
HOW to view the event as it unfolds (do I view it in
progress, in summary, or from the viewpoint of the
aftermath of the event). Since a vacuum does not exist
in the literary world, once you combine Lexical,
Grammatical, and other contextually elements you
arrive at Aktionsart. Aktionsart puts all these
elements together to arrive at how the event, giving
the dynamics of how aspects interact, cancel, and
modify each other, is being portrayed by the writer.
Aktionsart deals with elements such as ingressive,
once-for-all, iterative, etc.
Thus, Aspect would look at either the lexical or form
of the lexeme from the standpoint of what these items
mean in isolation; that is, what do they innately
possess.
Here's a chart:
Topic: Verbal Aspect
subtopic: Lexical Aspect (in a vacuum)
subtopic: Grammatical Aspects (in a vacuum)
subtopic: other contextual elements
combine all subtopics: Aktionsart (NOT in a vacuum)
I pluaralized Grammatical Aspects. Perhaps that needs
to be done to Lexical Aspect as well. I just don't
know.
Eddie Mishoe
--- Mitch Larramore <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get my definitions straight. I think
> linguists/grammarians use the following terms in
> different ways so there may not be the "correct"
> definition.
>
> For now, I'm trying to understand if the following
> formula and definitions are correct.
>
> Aktionsart = Lexical Aspect (innate 'movement' or
> lack
> of 'movement' within the lexeme itself) +
> Grammatical
> Aspect (innate temporalness of morphopardigmatic
> form)
> + other contextual intrusions (adverbs, etc.)
>
> What is Verbal Aspect?
>
>
> Mitch Larramore
> Sugar Land, Texas
>
>
>
>
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