[B-Greek] simple test *AURION HLQON
Ken Penner
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Tue Dec 13 16:35:24 EST 2005
Don wrote:
> OK, let's put a wrinkle in this. Where does "He will have
> written..." fit in all this?
S<R>E ; R not in E.
S<R is future "tense"; R>E is relative past tense (anterior). It is
perfective.
An example of the imperfective aspect would be, "He will have been writing."
This would be possibly be S<R>=E; R in E.
Ken
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> Relative time? It seems to me that "He will write"
> is imperfective while "He will have written" is perfective, since
> only the latter puts boundaries on the action. But, to anticipate
> what you're going to say and thus to see if I understand you, since
> "He will write" looks at the action as a whole and not within it, it
> is perfective. Is that right?
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