Funciones modo-temporales de la forma (O–V)oV en español y griego: imperfecto / co- pretérito vs. (???????????) / tafto-parelzontikós (?????-?????????????)

Abstract

The objective of the present article is the adequate characterization and explanation of the similarities and differences that the Imperfect and Paratatikós of the Indicative present in the formation of the categories of mood and tense in the case of Spanish and Modern Greek re-spectively. To this end, we have based our analysis on the Theory of Temporality, as it was ini-tially proposed for Spanish by Rojo in 1974 and elaborated in several subsequent publications (among others, Rojo & Veiga 1999 and Veiga 1991, 2008), adapting it at the same time to the structure of the Greek verbal paradigm. The linguistic analysis has revealed that the similarities in the categories of temporality and temporal dislocation that characterize both languages make it possible to speak about systematic parallels, both in relation to the ‘straight’ as well as the ‘idiomatic’ uses of the two verbal forms in question