[B-Greek] how to say 'continuative aspect' in Greek
R Yochanan Bitan Buth
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Mon Apr 19 09:37:14 EDT 2004
A question that could help me:
how would someone best express something like the
"imperfective/continuative aspect" in ancient Greek.
As far as I know, the Greeks just referred to
O ENESTWS XRONOS,
which doesn't explain or really apply to
infinitives,subjunctives, optatives and imperatives.
TOUT' ESTIN:
APAREMFATOS EGKLISIS, UPOTAKTIKH EGKLISIS, EUKTIKH
EGKLISIS kai PROSTAKTIKH EGKLISIS.
So what would a good ancient replacement be that would reflect a
modern linguistic viewpoint?
We have the PARATATIKOS XRONOS for the Greek imperfect, and we
could perhaps coin a term based on SUNEXHS 'continual' as
SUNEXHTIKH QEA (thea) 'continuative view'.
But what would any like to suggest?
blessings
Randall Buth
Randall Buth, PhD
Director, Biblical Language Center
www.biblicalulpan.org
and Director, Biblical Studies in Israel
Rothberg International School
Hebrew University
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
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