[B-Greek] Undefined Aspect

Brent Hudson brent at riveroflifembchurch.com
Tue Feb 10 13:43:28 EST 2004


Isn't Mounce primarily speaking about how to translate the Greek Present to
English (e.g., LUW can be either "I loose" (undefined present) or "I am
loosing" (continuous present))?  I wouldn't want to read too much in to what
this means for the Greek tense itself -- it is a 1st year grammar and
simplification is both expected and desired.

Brent Hudson
Moncton, NB
Canada



> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of waldo slusher
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:32 PM

> I would consider the statement by Mounce to be in error. The 
> "present tense" itself does NOT indicate undefined action. 




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