The links collected here are a compilation of various posts I’ve written that related to Greek tense, aspect, and Aktionsart. Enjoy!
A Brief Guide to Aspect
This series is intended to be an accessible introduction for students. It builds in difficulty from Part I through Part III.
- A brief guide to aspect in Greek: Part I, The basics
- A brief guide to aspect in Greek: Part II, The debates
- A brief guide to aspect in Greek: Part III, The perfect
A series on Stanley Porter’s view of aspect in Greek:
This series presents how my own views (as of 2008) differ and compare to those of Stanley Porter. While my own thinking has changed since then on a number of points, the broader picture has not changed.
- Porter and the Greek Verb, Part I
- On Porter’s View of the Greek Verb, Part II
- On Porter’s View of the Greek Verb, Part III
- Stanley Porter & The Greek Verb: Part IV
Material related to Michael Aubrey’s thesis on the Greek Perfect
- Challenges in language analysis: thesis prefatory material
- Thesis Prefatory Material: A Narrative Account
- Thesis on on RRG & the Greek perfect uploaded to Academia.edu
- State predicates and the Greek perfect, Pt 1
- State predicates and the Greek perfect, Pt 2
- State predicates and the Greek perfect, Pt 3
Aspect and the imperative mood
- Read this! Imperatives and the countability of events
- Perfect Active Imperatives: The Data
- Aspect, imperatives, and event conceptualization
- Perspectival uses of Aspect in the Imperative
- Iterative usage of aspect in the imperative mood
- Aspect and imperatives: General vs. specific
Other posts on tense & aspect
- Aspect Theory in the Dead Grammarians
- Aspect & Aktionsart: More from the Dead Grammarians
- Remoteness & Tense in English and Greek
- Greek Verbal Aspect: Interpretation Vs. Evidence
- A Terminological Question: Aspect & Aktionsart
- The Greek Verbal System and Aspect Prominence – JETS 59/1
- A brief comment on historiographical issues surrounding aspect
- Some Brief Notes on Comrie (1976)
- Time is not Tense. Time is not Aspect. But both are Temporal
- Once and twice: The countability of events
- Tense and Conceptual Reality
- A brief comment on telicity and boundedness
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