Re: English perfect, Greek perfect

dalmatia@eburg.com
Thu, 04 Jun 1998 22:22:42 -0700

Jonathan ~

What I am seeing here is two parallel verb indicative systems in the
Greek ~ Each having a past, present and future.

---*---> ------->*
PROGRESSIVE STATIVE
PAST Imperfect Pluperfect
PRESENT Present Perfect
FUTURE Future Future Perfect

The perfect is not a past tense at all, but a present STATIVE verb
tense on this view.

The aorist would then be *-----> in this approach.

This is NOT the way I was taught!!

What think ye??

George Blaisdell