No subject
Tue May 3 10:41:24 EDT 2011
Aspect:
The nature of the action of a verb as to its beginning, duration,
completion, or repetition and without reference to its position in time.
(http://www.orbilat.com/General_References/Linguistic_Terms.html)
Apect:
The unaffected meaning, while Aktionsart is aspect in combination
with lexical, grammatical, or contextual features.... Greek has
essentially three aspects or types of action: internal, external,
and perfectice-stative.
(GGBB, pg. 499...500).
With another author, we have this:
In Greek there are three aspects:
The CONTINUOUS aspect means that the action of the verb is thought
of as an ongoing process.
The UNDEFINED aspect means that the action of the verb is thought
of as a simple event, without commenting on whether or not it is a
process.... The UNDEFINED aspect is the absence of any specific aspect.
The PERFECT aspect describes an action that was brought to completion
but has effects carrying into the present.
Can someone help me understand the logic/reason of defining aspect
as UNDEFINED? How can there be an absence of aspect? This seems to
imply that aspect must have some association with verbal velocity,
that there must be some "movement" for there to be aspect.
Thanks
Mark Wilson
_________________________________________________________________
Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband. Join now!
http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list