Editing Grammatical aspect (section)

===History===
The Indian linguist [[Yaska]] ({{circa|7th century BCE}}) dealt with grammatical aspect, distinguishing actions that are processes (''bhāva''), from those where the action is considered as a completed whole (''mūrta''). This is the key distinction between the imperfective and perfective. Yaska also applied this distinction to a verb versus an action nominal.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

Grammarians of the Greek and Latin languages also showed an interest in aspect, but the idea did not enter into the modern Western grammatical tradition until the 19th century via the study of the grammar of the [[Slavic languages]]. The earliest use of the term recorded in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] dates from 1853.<ref name="Binnick1991">
{{cite book|author=Robert I. Binnick|title=Time and the verb: a guide to tense and aspect|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A1fSUowGY8kC&pg=PA135|year=1991|publisher=Oxford University Press US|isbn=978-0-19-506206-9|pages=135–6 |access-date=12 August 2011}}
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