Campbell: Advances Chapter 5
Posted: August 7th, 2016, 10:50 am
This thread is for discussing Con Campbell's book, Advances in the Study of Greek (2015) Chapter Five:
“Verbal Aspect and Aktionsart”
Interesting to learn that at one time people thought there was TENSE in the non-indicative moods. Is that where we get the atrocious terms like "Present Subjunctive"?
The chapter gives strong encouragement to learn more from Campell’s book, Basics of Verbal Aspect.
From reading that book, various other papers, and this Chapter 5, I've gained little to help me understand aspect better or be able to teach it better to my students. Luckily, I’m deluded. I think I understand aspect pretty well and know how to teach it, so the whole issue isn’t terribly interesting to me. I'll keep the door open an inch or so to let in some future clear and convincing explanation of aspect come in, but only an inch. I'm especially hard pressed to give up the idea of the indicative not indicating any sort of tense. Just seems very hard to swallow.
Seems to me that the desire to be too specific in terms and definitions has led to a controversy and conclusions that are ultimately unhelpful in understanding the Greek verb.
There is a nice little section in this chapter about aspect and narrative.
“Verbal Aspect and Aktionsart”
Interesting to learn that at one time people thought there was TENSE in the non-indicative moods. Is that where we get the atrocious terms like "Present Subjunctive"?
The chapter gives strong encouragement to learn more from Campell’s book, Basics of Verbal Aspect.
From reading that book, various other papers, and this Chapter 5, I've gained little to help me understand aspect better or be able to teach it better to my students. Luckily, I’m deluded. I think I understand aspect pretty well and know how to teach it, so the whole issue isn’t terribly interesting to me. I'll keep the door open an inch or so to let in some future clear and convincing explanation of aspect come in, but only an inch. I'm especially hard pressed to give up the idea of the indicative not indicating any sort of tense. Just seems very hard to swallow.
Seems to me that the desire to be too specific in terms and definitions has led to a controversy and conclusions that are ultimately unhelpful in understanding the Greek verb.
There is a nice little section in this chapter about aspect and narrative.