[B-Greek] Fwd: Imperfect and Aorist Tense-Aspects

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 18 14:02:20 EDT 2006


> On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Kimmo Huovila wrote:
>> Randall is saying that the aorist is a past
>> tense and even though in a conditional sentence protasis it does  
>> not signal
>> past (just as in English), it does not mean that it is not a past  
>> tense (in
>> other contexts)..

Is there some sort of general agreement that the aorist used in a
conditional sentence protasis cannot be explained by a shift of  
vantage point? It seems feasable to me that a condional sentance  
might put the protasis semantically in the past so that the temporal  
vantage point of the conditional utterance is in the middle, between  
the protasis and the apodosis.

Elizabeth Kline







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