[B-Greek] New book on Verbal Aspect
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 07:53:02 EST 2008
PS:
kai egrapse aubrey
>>TEMPORALITY IS A SUBSET OF SPACIALITY
specifically, not.
spaciality is a metaphor on a verb. METAPHOR.
As in nice parable if it works, but not real.
Time is a definition. referential.
ERRWSQE
IWANHS
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:
> aubrey egrapse
>>
> I continue to wonder if Fanning fully understands Campbell discussion of
> non-temporal nature and in Campbell's new "basics" takes many pains
> to explain exactly what spacial meaning is. Spacial reference in the
> augment does not exclude time because its relatively universal
> (if not completely) that time is aways expressed through spacial metaphor.
> Why else do we "look forward to tomorrow" and "put the past behind us"?
> ***TEMPORALITY IS A SUBSET OF SPACIALITY*** (not yelling, just
> emphatic) and thus temporality in Greek is marked on the augment to
> the extent that the augment marks remoteness, whether logical, temporal
> or any other way you can use space as a metaphor in meaning - perhaps
> even physical, though I haven't tested that.>
>
> In Hebrew, the past is in FRONT of you, qedem, because you can see
> what has happened, and the future is behind you because you can't
> see what is comiing, like the 'back point of days' the future of days,
> often in English 'the end of days' even when its not the end (Gn 49).
>
> So plainest vanilla on the augment is still PAST temporal reference,
> just like Dionysios Thrax treated it.
>
> Randall
>
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