Klaas Bentein is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University.

The book constitutes a perfect combination of qualitative and quantitative description and analysis...All in all, the book serves its major aims successfully: it addresses a more general public, which can be helped with the long discussion of the basic concepts, the glossary, and the detailed comments on all passages; it contains an exhaustive analysis of a large corpus of text; and it offers an alternative analysis of the semantic paths of constructions (mainly)...from the 8th cent. bc to the 8th cent. ad.

• Foreword ; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Theoretical Background ; 2. 'Verbal' and 'Adjectival' Periphrasis ; 3. Perfect Aspect ; 4. Imperfective Aspect ; 5. Perfective Aspect ; Conclusion ; Appendix ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index

Klaas Bentein is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University.

The book constitutes a perfect combination of qualitative and quantitative description and analysis...All in all, the book serves its major aims successfully: it addresses a more general public, which can be helped with the long discussion of the basic concepts, the glossary, and the detailed comments on all passages; it contains an exhaustive analysis of a large corpus of text; and it offers an alternative analysis of the semantic paths of constructions (mainly)...from the 8th cent. bc to the 8th cent. ad.

• Foreword ; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Theoretical Background ; 2. 'Verbal' and 'Adjectival' Periphrasis ; 3. Perfect Aspect ; 4. Imperfective Aspect ; 5. Perfective Aspect ; Conclusion ; Appendix ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index

Klaas Bentein is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent University.

The book constitutes a perfect combination of qualitative and quantitative description and analysis...All in all, the book serves its major aims successfully: it addresses a more general public, which can be helped with the long discussion of the basic concepts, the glossary, and the detailed comments on all passages; it contains an exhaustive analysis of a large corpus of text; and it offers an alternative analysis of the semantic paths of constructions (mainly)...from the 8th cent. bc to the 8th cent. ad.

• Foreword ; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction ; 1. Theoretical Background ; 2. 'Verbal' and 'Adjectival' Periphrasis ; 3. Perfect Aspect ; 4. Imperfective Aspect ; 5. Perfective Aspect ; Conclusion ; Appendix ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index