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> ... Important to remember that a lot of aspect is, as you say,
intertwined
> with tense in English, and is expressed not grammatically, but
semantically.
> Russian, for example, has aspect all over the place, usually with prefixes
> on verbs.
In fact, it really is more nearly correct to say that Russian (and other
Slavic lanugages, too) uses different verbs for different aspects, though
the perfective verbs are often compounds of imperfectives.
The discussion leads me to state that I think we might well think of
dropping the systems of tense in favor of aspect alone -- either as
imperfective/perfective, or as complete/ incomplete/ planned/ imagined.
Glosa has this business of "fu," "du," "pa" for tenses (only if needed) and
often it remains unused.
John