[B-Greek] simple test *AURION HLQON
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 12:45:54 EST 2005
After twenty or so posts on the original question, a summary or refocussing
might be in order.
> 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?
It appears that no one wants to argue that *KAI AURION EGRAPSA is grammatical.
Stated the otherway, everyone agrees that, e.g.,
*KAI AURION EGRAPSA BIBLION is ungrammatical.
That is quite remarkable unanimity, (though it is an argument from
lengthy and expressive silence.)
What remains is to state an explanation. So far the only one on the
table is that the verb form-meaning category of EGRAPSA has something
in it that blocks its co-occurrence with AURION 'tomorrow', and the
obvious name for that antigen is non-future time. Of course, that
would mean that EGRAPSA is not a pure aspect. That is why the question
was originally posed for "aspect-only-ists".
[PS: This email could be re-stated in a more formal metalanguage, but
that will not change the underlying reality and might even hide its
impact from most readers.]
ERRWSQE
Randall Buth
--
Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
randallbuth at gmail.com
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