[B-Greek] Imperfect and Aorist Aspects

Randall Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Fri Sep 8 16:37:53 EDT 2006


 >I do think those who want to ignore the augment as a tense/time
marker would find it more fruitful to take a close look at Hebrew, or
short of that, at Homer, Herodotus, and modern Greek, to see aspect
and context alone being employed to represent tense. >

As I mentioned in an earlier post, this is one way Greek people get  
in trouble.
Context alone is NOT what Hebrew uses.
that is why MAHAR BATI and vayyavo MAHAR don't occur.
Hebrew did not differentiate aspect from tense in its verb system.  
they were fused, both potentialities available in one morphosyntactic  
category..
English Hebrew metalanguage can be ignored, just do what Don says
literally, go to Hebrew itself.

Randall Buth



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