Fanning and Porter

Paul S Dixon dixonps at juno.com
Thu Dec 5 09:34:28 EST 2002



Thanks, Carl, for the number of hits per Porter and Fanning.  Frankly, I
have never studied much, if any, on aspect per se, and have not followed
it on the list.  Fanning was a year or two ahead of me at Dallas Seminary
(back in the 70s), we had several Greek electives together, so I got to
know him, but have not read his work on this topic.  The fact he has
delved into this did get my attention.

Could someone give a paragraph summation of the debate going on here, or
simply summarize the contribution this aspect thing brings to our
understanding of the Greek?  Is this referring to the idea that the basic
nuance of a verb is gleaned more from its lexical meaning than from its
tense?

Paul Dixon, pastor
First Presbyterian Church
Camden, AL


On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 09:11:49 -0500 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:
> At 6:15 AM -0800 12/5/02, Harry  W. Jones wrote:
> >Another thing that I have noticed is that everyone that mentions 
> Porter or
> >Fanning seems to come down on Porter's side rather than on 
> Fanning's. I was
> >wondering why that was  too.
> 
> I think this is assuredly a mistaken impression; while I have 
> heard/read
> positive reviews of Porter's work, I've heard/read even more that's
> positive about Fanning. The archives are full of discussion on this: 
> I just
> did a quick search for "Fanning" in the archives and got 406 hits 
> ranging
> from August 1995 through last month; a similar search for "Porter" 
> got 1002
> hits--but this by no means is an indication that one of the two is
> significantly preferred over the other. In fact, there have been 
> several
> voices expressing the view that Mari Olson's (also published) 
> account of
> aspect is preferable to both. She was once quite active on this 
> list; I
> don't know whether she is still with us.
> -- 
> 
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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