Biblical Hebrew Forum

[c stirling bartholomew <cc.constantine AT worldnet.att.net>]

Randal Wrote

>>> For example, most prefix verbs and vav hahippux suffix verbs, when 
>>> referring
>>> to the future, do not present an "imperfective" in-process event:  "he 
>>> will
>>> be coming . . .", but to a singulative, perfective, future event: "he will
>>> come". That is, most of those verbs are not "aspectually imperfective" . 
>>> . .
>>> 

CSB wrote: 
>> How can we determine that when a speaker wanted to mark time that they 
>> didn't
>> want ot mark aspect? And also the obvious complement, when a speaker wanted
>> to mark aspect that they didn't want to mark time? Again can this be
>> demonstrated?
>> 
on 6/13/01 3:27 PM, Peter Kirk wrote:

> I note that this is similar to Greek (but not Russian or English) in
> that aspect distinctions are not made in the future.

Thanks Peter,

I now see that I completely missed the point of this portion of Randall's
post. Now I see that he is limiting his statement with the qualification:

>>>when referring 
>>> to the future 

This qualification somehow didn't register the first time around.

Thanks for your help with this.

Clay



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