[B-Greek] Rewrite of Mounce 2nd ed ch. 20 by Decker
A. Philip Brown II
pbrown at GBS.EDU
Wed Jan 21 21:35:31 EST 2004
Rod,
Thanks for sharing your rewrite of Mounce ch. 20. I found it very helpful to
see how you translated your dissertation level material into the 1st year
Greek setting. Also appreciate your honesty in presentationspecifically
acknowledging dissenting views at key points.
The following statement by Porter in Idioms, 29, strikes me as less
absolutistic than your statement that "In Greek a verb form carries only the
grammatical meaning of aspect; it does not express time. Greek uses
deictic indicators in the context, which, along with other pragmatic
factors, help us determine the writer's intended time reference."
Porter states: "Greeks were still able to make reference to various times of
the day or night and to distinguish kinds of action, but they did so by
using a variety of indicators, with verb tenses as only one factor in
establishing the temporal context."
Your statement seems to imply that verb tense is NOT a factor in
establishing the temporal context, i.e., it is totally irrelevant. Do you
mean that?
Philip Brown
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