By Klaas Bentein
This quantity deals a scientific research of periphrastic buildings with the verbs 'to be' and 'to have' in accordance with an intensive corpus of texts, starting from the 8th century BC to the 8th century AD.
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Rijksbaron (2002: 127), for example, notes with regard to example (6) that periphrasis may suggest a subtle difference in conceptualization, the participle bringing forward the adjective-like quality of βλέπω ‘I see’ to a greater extent. Kühner & Gerth (1976 [1898]: 38) similarly find a greater emphasis in a progressive form such as δρῶν . . , Aj. 1324) ‘Agamemnon. ’ (tr. 13 In this context, 10 Compare the observations by Risselada (1987: 128–32) on the middle voice. Contrast Hauspie (2011: 139): ‘such periphrases [with the present participle, KB] .
94 Before discussing the ideational dimension of aspect in further detail, it is worth addressing two issues. 1. aspx>). For a thoroughgoing discussion on the various definitions given in modern scholarship of the aspectual opposition in Ancient Greek, see Fanning (1990: 8–85). 93 Compare Fleischman (1989, 1990). g. Rijksbaron (1988) and Bakker (1997). I further elaborate on the interplay between these dimensions in Bentein (2015a, 2016). 95 Cf. Joseph (1987: 428–9). 96 Maslov (1985: 16), for example, has argued that aspect can be expressed not only through morphological but also through lexical and syntactic information, and that different languages achieve aspect differently.
As I noted above, I believe aspect should be approached from a functional, rather than formal, point of view, and I do not see the point of distinguishing between ‘synthetic’ and ‘analytic’ aspect, as Hewson (1997: 14) proposes; while synthetic and periphrastic constructions do not necessarily cover the same functional domain, in principle they can be described in terms of the same (cross-linguistically attested) aspectual categories. 1 Imperfective aspect Imperfective aspect can be defined in terms of temporal ‘unboundedness’,100 meaning that no explicit attention is paid to the boundary transition phases of the event.