[B-Greek] simple test *AURION HLQON
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 17 22:21:20 EST 2005
Dr. Furuli:
One thing I found odd with Porter was his statement
that he was trying to reconstruct the verbal system of
Greek by creating an interpretive system/model with
the least number of exceptions to the rules. But I
really don't find that at all compelling. I would
suppose that a better approach would be to look for a
system that best handles ONLY the normal and customary
usages. In other words, I would actually not consider
the anomolies/exceptions/rhetoric/etc. of a language
in trying to reconstruct its "grammatical rules." What
occurred to me was if you took Porter's assumptions
and evaluated the English language, you might very
well be forced to conclude that English is likewise an
aspect-only language. I think grammar targets the
"normal and customary" usages of a language. Those
examples outside the bell curve (like, the grass
withers) should purposefully be excluded.
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
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