well as aspect. Thus, he concludes that almost all of the major New Testament grammars “are out of touch with current linguistic thought but, more than that, apparently with the Greek language itself”310. The unacceptability of the last claim becomes especially apparent from the fact that it implies that the Greeks, too, must be out of touch with the Greek language, inasmuch as they believe that the Greek verb expresses time as well as aspect! That Porter does mean that, becomes evident from what