[B-Greek] An Accessible Brief Introduction to Greek Verbal Aspect

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Thu May 19 17:18:27 EDT 2011


>It's not a question at this point about recommending something for the best
understanding of Greek grammar, but for a basic, accessible introduction to
the aspect only/Porterite view.>

Fine. Then quote published sources.
If you want to recommend the article you are free to do so.
I mentioned the order in which students should be introduced to Porterite
views--after they have a foundation in Greek and after they know
some correct metalanguage.

I would ask--does presenting the article encourage students to learn Greek
and to increase their fluency? Or does it push Greek farther away
from the students, as something out of reach of ordinary folk?
Beginning students can be pretty intimidated if they think that their
teachers don't know how to say
"I walked to the store"
EBADISA EIS TO KAPHLEION.
and are told φλυαρια FLYARIA that they might be saying:
"I will go to the store."


Οriginally the article was referenced as
>an accessible brief introduction to Greek verbal aspect and debate about it,

I think its a bad introduction to Greek verbal aspect and "debate" about it.
I've explained why previously.
So I don't recommend it to students. They need to learn Greek.

Banks teach tellers about recognizing counterfeit bills by having them process
'clean' bills first.

Greek students should first experience good Greek in proper context.
We probably don't give them enough of it.

If a linguistic metalanguage is presented, let it be helpful.

Randall Buth

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