[B-Greek] Speaking clearly: grammatical aspect, lexical aspect
Jonathan Robie
jwrobie at mindspring.com
Fri Jul 6 09:58:53 EDT 2007
Eric Weiss wrote:
> I suspect that other languages also have "aspect" and "aktionsart," but they
> are perhaps coded differently in their grammar and syntax than Greek encodes
> them (if I'm saying this correctly.
Books that discuss tense and aspect routinely mention that aspect is
directly reflected in Russian morphology. Me, I don't know from Russian,
but the syntax and grammar of Russian seem to have deeply influenced
modern linguistics and modern descriptions of Greek.
Jonathan
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