Are Participles Marked Temporally?
david reigle
reigles at paonline.com
Thu Mar 4 14:10:10 EST 1999
Yes, I second the motion for some discussion of these questions. Even some
discussion of just how some of you are defining actionsart and aspect would
be helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Dave Reigle
reigles at paonline.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Robertson [SMTP:jmrober at pop6.ibm.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 2:59 AM
To: Biblical Greek
Subject: Re: Are Participles Marked Temporally?
Dear list,
As we have opened this thread once again, I would like to ask a
couple of basic questions.
1. Do people on this list believe that there is a basic difference
between "aspect" and "aktionsart"? Or do you believe these terms to
be more or less interchangeable? It is fundamental to the
understanding of some "new" aspectual theory to realize that these
terms are considered by the theorists (por ejemplo, Stanley Porter)
to represent two different things. For them aspect has to do with
the decision of the author or speaker concerning how to depict the
thought of the verb, while aktionsart has to do with the actual "type
of action".
2. What would people on the list think about the
relative temporality of a participle being affected by the
participle's position (i.e. before or after the main verb?)
According to Porter, when the participle appears before the main
verb, "there is a tendency for the action to be depicted as
antecedent," while when after the main verb, "there is a tendency for
the action to be seen as concurrent or subsequent." (Porter, Verbal
Aspect, p. 381) I am not necessarily arguing for this position, I
just want to hear the opinions of those with greater experience and
knowledge. My small paper on the aorist participles which follow the
head verb in the book of Acts seems to support Porter's view, but who
knows??? (By the way, I now have a copy of that paper, if anyone is
interested in seeing it. The data would seem to support the view
that there are certainly some examples of the aorist participle of
"subsequent action".)
In Christ,
Jon Robertson
"Quis caelum posset, nisi caeli munere, nosse,
et reperire deum nisi qui pars ipse deorum?"
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