Open AccessLa oposición aspectual griega presente/aoristo, examinada de nuevo
Author(s) -
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1990.v58.i1.548
Subject(s) - opposition (politics) , term (time) , humanities , action (physics) , subject (documents) , linguistics , philosophy , political science , computer science , physics , astronomy , law , library science , quantum mechanics , politics
The author examines his earliest studies on the subject in the light of subsequent research. He concludes that the aorist is a positive term of aspectual opposition not concerning momentary action, which is a contextual value, but «action with a term». The present is a negative term; along with the concept of «action without a term» (from which duration derives) there are many neutral cases