The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek [Paperback]

The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek incorporates linguistic insights from both neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan traditions to present a unified semantic description of the perfect and pluperfect in literary Koine Greek.

• Offers a comprehensive and unified account of the Greek perfect that considers its behaviour in terms of tense and aspect, as well as voice (or diathesis)
• Features insights from the neo-Davidsonian and Chomskyan semantic traditions while addressing the perfect tense in Koine Greek
• Incorporates syntactic and semantic frameworks to provide an account of the perfect in terms of the causative alternation and aspectual classes of predicate
• Utilizes a large corpus of material that has not been previously discussed in a linguistic sense relating to the question of the semantics of the Greek perfect

Introduction

1.1 Problem of the Greek perfect active

1.2 Existing frameworks for understanding the perfect

1.3 Existing frameworks for understanding the Greek perfect

1.4 Critical assessment of existing studies

1.5 Aims and approach

1.6 Corpus

1.7 Outline

2. The perfect and lexical aspect

2.1 Introduction

2.1.1 Events and the Greek perfect

2.1.2 The true domain of events

2.1.3 Aspect: semantic, pragmatic or morphological?

2.1.4 Viewpoint aspect, situation aspect and telicity

2.1.5 Tense and aspect in terms of Utterance Time and

Topic Time

2.1.6 Viewpoint aspect in Greek

2.1.7 Lexical aspectual categories: Aristotle, Kenny andl3%