Porter’s Definitions of Aspect

I’m working on my thesis right now and I’ve been looking through various definitions of the terms aspect, perfectivity, imperfectivity, stativity, resultative, and so forth–the standard terms applied to the Greek aspectul inflectional forms (I’ve also looked at less standard terms, but those are easier to find definitions of). I’ve worked through Fanning, Porter, Campbell, [...]

Occasional Surveys in the History of Greek Grammar: Dionysius Thrax

Dionysius Thrax (or at least the grammar attributed to him) represents one early voice on the structure of the Ancient Greek verbal system and today I want to look at his depressively brief on tense-aspect. My translation is descriptive in nature rather than using the standard labels for the various inflectional forms: χρόνοι τρεῖς, ἐνεστώς, [...]