[B-Greek] XWRIS TELOYS vs. META TELOYS and EXEI TELOS
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 03:19:07 EDT 2008
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Elizabeth Kline
<kline_dekooning at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:20 AM, Randall Buth wrote:
>>
>> Goodwin says that the aorist indicative is without limitation of
>> "completion, continuance, repetition, etc., which belong to the other
>> past tenses."
>>
>> Is it really true that the Greek aorist has no sense of COMPLETION?
>
> Cooper appears to disagree:
>
> Attic Greek Syntax v1. 53:5.0
> "The aorist is an abstract tense which does not properly have any reference
> to situation in time or duration in time. It simply asserts that an action
> is attained. The indicative usually refers to past time simply because the
> idea of attainment draws the action into that sphere."
Cooper is just wrong here. Attainment can take place in the future and
modern Greek specifically differentiates open-ended futures
QA AGORAZH 'will be buying'
from closed futures QA AGORASH 'will buy'.
(But the ancient INDICATIVE aorist cannot be used with AYRION.)
> RE: "endpoint" I am not sure if Cooper's "attainment" includes your notion
> of and endpoint. I didn't find that question explicitly addressed.
>
> Elizabeth Kline
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