The ... aorist =neutral?
Randall Buth
ButhFam at compuserve.com
Wed Dec 6 09:35:53 EST 2000
Message text written by Kimmo Huovila
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The perfective aspect is quite a bit different from a once-for-all idea.
But in my opinion the aorist itself grammaticalizes the perfective
aspect.
Kimmo Huovila
* See for example Fanning's or Porter's dissertation or my MA thesis. I
am not aware of any recent aspectological studies claiming aspectual
neutrality for the aorist.
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Let me add a couple of points:
Yes, I agree with Kimmo that the aorist is 'perfective', a general
linguistic term.
The so-called 'neutral' aorist seems to be coming from some discussions
interacting with Porter, where he distinguished 'aorist' from 'perfect'
aspect, which gives a sort of three-way aspect split 'imperfective',
'neutral', 'perfect'. However, I would prefer to see both the aorist and
perfect as two types of 'perfectives', in the general linguistics
perspective.
ERRWSO
Randall buth
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