both about the nature of Neohellenic and about the Greek pronunciation13. (c) More recently, in a debate that has flared up about Time and Aspect in the Greek verb, it has been triumphantly declared that the Greek verb expresses only Aspect, no Time14. This has been described as a ‘new discovery’ to the extent of speaking of the “pre-verbal aspect literature” as well as of “grammarians before the advent of verbal-aspect”! The very propagation of this doctrine, let alone the question of its being