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Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek is unavailable, but you can change that!

Verbal aspect in the Greek language has been a topic of significant debate in recent scholarship. The majority of scholars now believe that an understanding of verbal aspect is even more important than verb tense (past, present, etc.). Until now, however, there have been few accessible textbooks. In this book, Constantine Campbell investigates the function of verbal aspect within the New...

are interested in at the moment is verbal semantics or grammatical semantics, which refers to the uncancelable properties of the verb form. When speaking of verbs, pragmatics refers to the expression of semantic values in context and in combination with other factors. In other words, pragmatics refers to how it all ends up—the way language is used in context. The way that semantics and pragmatics relate together is a little like this: we take the semantic elements and plug them into a
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