[B-Greek] Understanding tense of participles?
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 11 12:36:17 EST 2005
Craig:
Here's what I've gleaned from out here. Before you
discuss the temporal nature of participles (and their
relation to head verbs), you have to first agree on
antecedent issues. These antecedent issues involve the
nature of propositions and the nature of deictic
centers, and others. I think the nature of
propositions has really not be adequate discussed or
defined, and the nature of deictic centers (most see
it as the point of writing/speaking, while others see
it developed contextually on a case-by-case basis) is
far from an exact science. So, the debate about issues
AFTER these antecedent issues rarely settles anything.
You really can't compare Wallace and Porter, since
they don't agree on these antecedent issues. Both
Porter and Wallace see time in Greek, but they see it
in different places. I guess most of the time they
would agree on the end temporal point, but would get
their taking different routes (of course, they would
differ on some temporal end points).
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
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