toward a definition of Verbal Apect
Steven R. Lo Vullo
slovullo at mac.com
Tue Nov 5 00:39:28 EST 2002
On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 06:16 PM, Mark Wilson wrote:
> How do you distinguish an Imperfect from a Present. Without time,
> all you are left with is the same aspect, right?
Or, for that matter, an aorist from a future? These seem somehow
related in that both have the S tense formative in active and middle as
well as QH(S) forms distinguishing passive from middle. As far as I can
tell, they also seem to be aspectually identical. Though some argue
that the aspect of the future is sometimes external, sometimes
internal, this seems nothing more than the result of the same kinds of
contextual influences that would lead us to the same conclusion for the
aorist, if we didn't know better.
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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
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