@inbook {9438, title = {Tense, aspect and the Greek perfect}, booktitle = {A. Alexiadou, M. Rathert \& A. von Stechow (eds.) Perfect Explorations}, year = {2003}, pages = {235-252}, publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter}, organization = {Mouton de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, abstract = {

This paper explores the relationship of the perfect with time, in its grammatical expression both as tense and as aspect. While not denying that the perfect has other, non-temporal and non-aspectual uses, while in fact admitting that they are more wide-spread than its time-related uses, it argues that a relationship with time does exist; of the various time-related meanings associated with the perfect it is anteriority that turns out to be more {\textquotedblleft}basic{\textquotedblright}, in the sense that all the other meanings of the perfect can be derived from it. The article has a strong historical bias: the basic meaning is assumed to have a historical precedence as well as a logical one.\ 

}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110902358/9783110902358.235/9783110902358.235.xml}, author = {Amalia Moser} }