S. R. Driver wrote in 1874. The first English edition of Gesenius' grammar
appeared in 1898.
GKC's second English edition (1910) refers to Driver's third edition (1892)
in footnote 2, section 106.
The direction of influence is from Driver to GKC, not the reverse.
No, the earliest use of the word "aspect" I know of for Hebrew was Kennedy's
1879 translation of Ewald: "But the simplest distinction of time in an
action is, that the speaker first of all merely separates between the two
grand and opposite aspects under which every conceivable action may be
regarded" (1). Where Kennedy has "aspects" Ewald (1870) had "unterscheide"
It was Rodiger who imported Ewald's terms "imperfect" and "perfect" into his
revision of Gesenius' grammar.
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