[B-Greek] simple test *AURION HLQON

Donald Vance donaldrvance at mac.com
Mon Dec 12 17:30:05 EST 2005


I am apparently missing your point Randall. By definition, an event 
that has not happened yet is viewed as incomplete and hence uses an 
imperfective.
Don Vance
donaldrvance at mac.com
On Dec 12, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Randall Buth wrote:

> Here is a simple test for aspect-only-ists
>
> *AURION HLQON
> *KAI AURION EGRAPSA
> Is this good Greek? If not, why not?
>
> Ditto for Hebrew:
> *maHar ba-ti
> *umaHar katavti.
> Is this good Hebrew? If not, why not?
>
> (The asterisk in linguistics may mark an utterance as unnacceptable.
> In that sense it expresses my own viewpoint. However, I have added it
> so that partial quotes will maintain a signal to its proposed
> inappropriateness. I see enough non-Hebrew in published "Hebrew
> grammars" already [e.g., *tsava 'he commanded, *nagash 'he
> approached'] and would not like to see incorrect utterances multiplied
> on a list.)
>
> ERRWSQE
> Randall
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