Dear Rolf,
HH: What you are seeking for seems unrealistic. An essential idea of the
When I ask the question: "Is past tense an uncancelable part of the
WAYYIQTOL form?," I seek a scrupulous distinction between semantics and
pragmatics when I answer the question, and I use "scrupulous" as defined by
Websters.
Greek aorist is that it is a preterite; it expresses past meaning. But
that is not always the case. Sometimes the aorist can be used in
contexts which indicate a present meaning. And it can be used in
contexts which imply a future meaning. I was just reading about it:
http://books.google.com/books?id=BExv_MTYrZkC&dq=uses+of+aorist+Greek&pg=PA22&ots=gXedHFoi0S&sig=Xpoo7X4iOYetqTTFLw0tPx4R2u0&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Duses%2Bof%2Baorist%2BGreek%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=2#PPA16-IA4,M1
Language is not as rigid as you seem to propose.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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