[B-Greek] Imperfect and Aorist Aspects
Rolf Furuli
furuli at online.no
Sun Sep 10 08:57:30 EDT 2006
Dear Barry,
The term "deictic center" can be defined as the vantagepoint from which a
speaker/writer sees the action. In most cases the deictic center is "the
present moment" related to the speaker/writer. In discussions and studies
including this concept it is important to understand the different
appraoaches suggested by B. Comrie (1976) "Aspect" and M. Broman Olsen
(1997) "A Semantic and Pragmatic Model of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect".
Comrie defines actions connected with a deictic center different from the
present moment as "relative tense," while Broman Olsen defines these as a
combination of tense and aspect. Comrie defines future perfect and
pluperfect as relative tenses while Broman Olsen defines future perfect as a
combination of future tense and the perfective aspect and pluperfect as a
combination of past tense and the perfective aspect.
Two other important concepts are "reference time" and "event time." These
comcepts were coined by H. Reichenbach (1947) "Elements of symbolic Logic,"
and has been slightly modified by Comrie. Broman Olsen has particularly
modified "reference time" further, and her model is much better than
Comrie´s. I have modified Broman Olsen´s model by going much deeper into the
nature of reference time and event time, and this has revealed more details.
My system is very simple: Tense is the funtion of (the relationship between)
the deictic center and reference time, and aspect is the function of (the
relationship between) reference time and event time; tense expresses deictic
time and aspect expresses nondeictic time.
Best regards,
Rolf Furuli
University of Oslo
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> On Behalf Of Randall Buth
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>> Subject: [B-Greek] Imperfect and Aorist Aspects
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>> >Jude 14 well illustrates the Deictic Center.
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>> Actually, I would read this differently. Verse 15 encodes APAREMFATA
>> (infinitives) that are peripheral to HLQEN. HLQEN sets the stage by
>> relating to a Deitctic Center (speakers standing point), and HLQEN is
>> Prior to it, in this case. The infinitives of purpose are not
>> necessarily post deictic centre.
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> I missed the original posts on this. Could someone define "deictic
> center?" I think I know how y'all are using the terminology, but want to
> make sure.
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