[B-Greek] Are there any aspect only language?
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 20 08:22:39 EDT 2006
It seems to me that if there were one, it would end up
like Porter's view of Koine Greek where one tense is
almost always used for past, one almost always used
for future, and one almost always used for the
present. It would appear that that is one of the
constraints we as humans have: we think in terms of
time. How could some group of people put a language
together that is counter-intuitive, especially one the
size of Greek? (And if Greek had no tense, I think the
Romans would have insisted upon Latin being the lingua
franca, and if not, the people would have gravitated
toward a tensed language.)
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
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