Thanks for that. I'm struck how often the French translation used the passé simple (perfective) for these imperfects. I thought French literature liked playing with imperfects (e.g. imparfait pittoresque, imparfait de rupture, etc.) more than that.Jonathan Robie wrote: ↑July 27th, 2018, 7:47 am I agree that this looks like a translation issue, and maybe a quirk in the English aspectual system. Here are the same examples in a Spanish and a French translation:
Ingressive Imperfect Examples (in Spanish and French)
Rendering imperfective into English (an English question?)
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Re: Rendering imperfective into English (an English question?)
Rod Decker's 2009 SBL paper on the imperfect in Mark begins with a discussion of inceptive imperfectives:
http://ntresources.com/blog/wp-content/ ... Decker.pdf
http://ntresources.com/blog/wp-content/ ... Decker.pdf
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