[B-Greek] simple test *AURION HLQON
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 04:19:02 EST 2005
my comments are spaced with **
On 12/13/05, Donald R. Vance, Ph.D. <donaldrvance at mac.com> wrote:
> OK, let's put a wrinkle in this. Where does "He will have written..."
> fit in all this? Relative time? It seems to me that "He will write"
> is imperfective
** no, "he will write" is perfective, it is the whole event and
includes the endpoint. "He will write a book" looks at the whole and
therefore implies completion, while "he will be writing a book" only
looks at a part of the process and therefore does not imply
completion. **
> while "He will have written" is perfective, since
> only the latter puts boundaries on the action.
** This is more than perfective, it is perfective plus a relative time
reference to a resulting state.**
> 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?
**ORQWS EGRAPSAS, NAI **
>
> As to the two examples, yes I agree they are not found and are
> presumably ungrammatical. As to their significance for the Aspect/
> Tense descriptions of Greek and Hebrew, you may be on to something.
. . .
> Donald R. Vance
> donaldrvance at mac.com
Randall
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