[B-Greek] continuous and undefined aspect
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 21 10:29:38 EDT 2007
--- Delbert Flora <delbert.flora at hotmail.com> wrote:
> The present tense can indicate "continuous" or
> "undefined" action. (p. 135)
>
> I've read that the aorist tense verb is "undefined,"
> while Mounce includes
> present tense verbs as well with this aspect. Can
> both aorist and present
> tense verbs have undefined aspect?
My teacher took that statement to mean that the
Present Tense can be TRANSLATED as an undefined aspect
IN ENGLISH ('I study,' rather than 'I AM studyING').
But ALL Present Tense verbs denote action "in
progress." We were taught not to use the term
"continuous" because it implied that the action "keeps
on going," whereas the idea of "in progress" does not
imply an action keeps on going. So, the Present Tense
portrays the action as CURRENTLY in progress, whereas
an Aorist Tense denotes an action as having simply
occurred.
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
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