[B-Greek] XWRIS TELOYS vs. META TELOYS and EXEI TELOS

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 14:49:35 EDT 2008


Kimmo egrapse

>Few grammatical terms are as unfortunate as the aorist:
hH AORISTH OYIS (aspect) OUK ESTIN CWRIS hOROU ALL' ECEI TELOS. TOUT' ESTIN:
hH AORISTH OYIS hORISTH ESTIN. hH DE PARATATIKOS (imperfect) CRONOS AORISTOS
ESTIN EN OYEI (aspectually) MH ECON TELOS MHDE hOROU (EN OYEI LOGOU, within
the scope of predication) . DIA GAR TI hOI hELLHNES WNOMAZON THN AORISTHN
OYIN AORISTHN? OUK OIDA. TAXA hH LEXIS ECEI DYNAMIN "pragmatically unmarked"?
hO AORISTOS CRONOS ESTIN PARELHLUQWS CRONOS (CWRIS TINWN DYNAMEWN OUK ECOUSWN
CRONON). DIONYSIOS hO QRAIKOS EN THi TECNHi GRAMMATIKHi ENOMIZE hOTI CRONOS
ESTIN KAI MOI DOKEI hOTI ORQWS ENOMIZE (CWRIS ANWMALIWN :-) ).
>


DIA TI? ERWTAS.

DIA TO MH PROSTIQENAI TI THN  AORISTHN OPSIN.
H PARATAIKH OPSIS PROSTIQHSI "TO XWRIS TELOYS EINAI"
H PARAKEIMENH OPSIS PROSTIQHSI OTI TO PRAGMA ESTHKE.
ALLA H AORISTOS OYDEN PROSTIQHSI.

It is the 'none of the above' aspect, and yes as you mentioned,
the Greeks themselves call it a tense, because in the indicative the aorist
aspect is joined with the past tense.
Just like they called the PARATATIKOS XRONOS 'the extending time' since
it was "open-ended, extending", and had a past tense.



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