Board Thread:Linguistics/@comment-5643714-20131104161029

I have a problem with my verb system, in the fact that I don't quite understand how the aspects work and how they are put together with the tenses and moods.

The deal is, I made a fusional system of three tenses, past, present and future, and I put them together with four moods (not important) and the aspects perfective, imperfective and frequentative. I thought this was completely fine. But a lot of time later, I looked back at it, and something just felt wrong. Looking these aspects up on Wikipedia, I found out the frequentative is a 'lexical' aspect, that is not realized through morphology. And I found out the perfective and imperfective aspects have different names and stuff depending on the tense, like Aorist or Preterite, and now, I am just totally lost. Note, I am trying to make this language as natural/realistic as possible. Can someone explain how this aspect stuff works, and perhaps give some ideas for what aspects I can use? 