Re: Periphrastic construction "EIMI + Participle" in Acts

From: Mike Sangrey (mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 09:53:19 EDT


Randall Buth <ButhFam@compuserve.com> said:
> Post-Alexander, when Heb and Aram came in heavy contact with Greek,
> bi- and tri-lingual speakers became much more sensitized to ASPECT
> through using Greek and started to greatly increase periphrastic
> 'be'-plus-participle constructions in both Hebrew and Aramaic.

Would this imply koine periphrastic constructions bring 'tense' to the fore?

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Mike Sangrey
mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us
Landisburg, Pa.
       There is no 'do' in faith, everywhere present within it is 'done'.

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