[B-Greek] Negated Perfect tense verbs & verbals
A. Philip Brown II
pbrown at GBS.EDU
Thu Dec 11 11:32:45 EST 2003
Hello,
I'm working with an exegetical question that turns on the significance of a
negated perfect tense verb.
The perfect tense signifies an event that, completed in the past, has
results existing in the present time (w/ ref. to the specified perspective).
Contextual, lexical, and grammatical factors will nuance that basic aspect,
giving emphasis to the results or the completed action, among other
aktionsarts.
The question put to me was this: Can the negation of a perfect tense
verb(al) signify the negation of the continuing results, without necessarily
signifying a denial/negation of the completed action? Theoretically it seems
possible to me, but I can't think of any LXX/NT examples.
I would appreciate any definitive examples or grammatical commentary the
list members could give me on this construction.
Thanks.
Philip Brown
-----Original Message-----
From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Trevor Peterson
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:07 AM
To: B-Greek
Subject: RE: [B-Greek] More on Funk's intro grammar
>===== Original Message From "Doug Hoxworth" <dhoxworth at charter.net> =====
>><Trevor>
>>Didn't someone recently publish a link to a listing on Amazon?
>
><doug>
>yes. here it is again. i think this is it:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0891300937/104-4234042-6943121?%5Fencoding=UTF
8&
coliid=I3VRVL63ZJSHVB&colid=2NIGPGCHD0R8B
Yep, that's the one. So there's further confirmation that the workbook does
in
fact exist in published form. That helps dispell the possiblity of
hallucination :-)
Thanks,
Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics
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