One of Porter’s most significant claims is that the Greek tense-forms do not encode time. How can I work through this as a case study in the Gospels?
I'd need some context as the usual definition of tense is something like:
[quote]Tense is a grammatical category, typically marked on the verb , that deictically refers to the time of the event or state denoted by the verb in relation to some other temporal reference point.
International Linguistics Department, Glossary of Linguistic Terms (SIL International, 1996–).
So I would need to know how he classifies the various aspects of a verb e.g. aspect, mood, modality, tense, transitivity, voice . . . Somewhere in his description of the other portions of the verb lie the answer to your question.
Cf. https://www.academia.edu/17558734/2014_Contrastive_Substitution_and_the_Greek_Verb_Reassessing_Porter_s_Argument
