Abstract
The bibliography regarding aspect in Latin is immense, yet no agreement on the matter has been reached so far. There are theories stating that nothing like aspect can be found in Latin, theories viewing the opposition imperfectum versus perfectum as an aspectual one, theories working with preverbials and/or infixes like -sc- as aspectual markers etc.
All the above mentioned theories perceive the aspect as a verbal characteristic. However, as the recent works on the field of aspectology convincingly show, the aspect is encoded in the whole sentence and its elements - in the subject and its (un)specified quantity, in adverbials, etc.
In the present paper, we show the deficiency of the theories that work with the aspect as a verbal quality, we present the compositional view on aspect in general, and we discuss the elements of the Latin sentence that might play a role when considering Latin aspect as a compositional one.