Talk:Perfective aspect

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"In modern Indo-European languages, the concepts of aspect and tense are usually conflated, though they were once distinct."

Isn't this abit a west-european centric? In Slavonic languages, the concepts of aspect and tense seem be to still quite distinct, I suspect it also to be true with other IE branches I might not be familiar with.

[edit] Slavic languages and conflation of tense ad aspect

Though there are purely aspectual and purely tense-related elements in Savic languages, these languages still display a sinificant level of conflation of the two phenomena. Examples are verb forms such as aorist, imperfect, plu(squam)perfect, or the way Russian expresses future (complex forms for imperfective vers and the present for perfective verbs). Boban Arsenijevic