differences between Porter’s approach and Fanning’s, and it is unfortunate that the phrase “verbal aspect theory” has sometimes been used to refer to distinctives of the former, such as the view that Greek tenses do not encode location in time even in the indicative.6 But there is considerable agreement between these two scholars as to the essential nature of aspect. In particular, both see aspect as a matter of the speaker or author’s choice of “viewpoint” on the situation to which the verb relates,