ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines lexical and grammatical aspect and described a formal situation structure represented by aspectual phenomena to which other linguistic elements make reference, particularly tense. It describes the lexical aspect classes should be described as combinations of privative features which may be marked or left unspecified, rather than as fully specified equipollent features. The book proposes that grammatical aspect provides different ways of viewing the nucleus-coda structure, by specifying how the Event Time (ET) encodes intersects with a Reference Time (RT). It shows how the monotonic compositional model of lexical aspect, grammatical aspect, and tense accounts for the semantics and pragmatics of English and Koine Greek temporal phenomena. The book discusses the subcategories proposed for various tense and aspect forms in English and Koine Greek grammars be attributed to interactions among aspect and tense features.
