Abstract
This Journal published in 2016 an article by Jerome Moran on ‘Tense, Time and Aspect in the Greek Verb’ (Moran, 2016). It rightly pointed to the unsatisfactory nature of the treatment of the concept of ‘verbal aspect’ in available grammars and language courses, but did not sufficiently, I think, throw light on the issue for practising teachers and their students, nor did it satisfactorily clarify the intellectual issue posed. And yet this concept, which is not difficult to understand, is all-embracing and lies at the heart of the meaning of verbs in the classical language so that it is important to understand the distinctions it provides within the scope of the Greek verb.
Highlights
This Journal published in 2016 an article by Jerome Moran on ‘Tense, Time and Aspect in the Greek Verb’ (Moran, 2016)
Interest in the concept of aspectual distinctions, which are seldom made explicit in traditional Greek grammars, arose from acquaintance with the verb in Russian where aspect is very prominent
The distinction is present in the Latin verb system where the difference between the imperfect and perfect tenses is aspectual, though in general the Latin verb system is markedly different from the Greek
Summary
This Journal published in 2016 an article by Jerome Moran on ‘Tense, Time and Aspect in the Greek Verb’ (Moran, 2016). There are two parallel verbs for a particular verbal idea which may be differentiated by prefixes or suffixes or internal vowel variation or even the use of two completely different verbs, one of which denotes the imperfective aspect, the other the perfective.
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