Time of Participles

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 16 13:12:19 EDT 2002


Carl:

You asked:

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>Are you trying to suggest that hOI PISTEUONTES and hOI PISTEUSANTES and hOI
>PEPISTEUKOTES and hOI PISTEUSONTES might be more or less equivalent in
>meaning?
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No. I am asking about the temporal nature of substantival
participles as compared to the temporal nature of adverbial
participles, and that deals with FUNCTION, not form.

For example: John hit the ball.

There is no temporal element in the word "John."

Now, if we convert John to a substantival participle,
"The one standing by himself" hit the ball, do we now
introduce any different temporal elements to this statement.
Was John standing somewhere BEFORE, DURING, or AFTER he
hit the ball?

Remember, I am not referring to Aspect, only TIME/tense.

Mark Wilson


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