[B-Greek] Imperative Mood

waldo slusher waldoslusher at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 5 07:55:27 EDT 2004


Eddie:

Many hold to a Greek temporal based system; I am one
of them. And I would just say Yes, all Imperatives are
Future from the Deitic Center, which may always be the
point of command/time of writing/speaking. 

This is not to deny the Aspectual nature of the
command; it rather affirms that each Imperative is a
command to act: with the present....start this
immediately, and with the aorist....get this done as
fast as you can.

Waldo


--- Eddie Mishoe <edmishoe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In that the Imperative Mood is not a part of the
> Indicative system, grammarians almost universally
> assert that "it is unrelated to time." However, can
> we
> even conceive of an Imperative statement that is not
> by definition FUTURE referring.? While grammarians,
> for example, seem to wrestle with the aspectual
> differences between the aorist and present
> prohibitions (undefined or continuous aspect), few
> seem to state that, because a command must appeal to
> the will or volition of the recipient, it must
> therefore be FUTURE. Can it be asserted that the
> Imperative Mood commands an action to be taken or
> not
> taken FUTURE from the time the command is issued? 
> 
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