correction on foreground/background
yochanan bitan-buth
ButhFam at compuserve.com
Sat Sep 2 18:45:48 EDT 2000
though I'd add a brief corrective note:
clay quoted someone (Rolf?)
>and the imperfect of (7) and the
> aorist of (8) as foreground information.
Pragmatic/discourse theory would normally assign
the aorist to a foreground
and the imperfect to background.
I am fully in agreement with such theory.
The "stylistic" imperfect examples I gave a few days ago and such
backgroundings.
anyway, it is not healthy for students to have imperfect Greek verbs
referred to as 'foreground'.
ERRWSQE
Randall Buth
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