Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Is there any such thing as "permissive"/"causative" tenses in Biblical Hebrew?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:59:17 +1000
Just a quick correction:
> This isn't true either. Completed/uncompleted actions is called "aspect" and
> the Biblical Hebrew verb system has neither tense nor aspect.
Not quite. The completed/uncompleted axis is not aspect, but AKTIONSART
('type of action'). The usual polarity proposed for ASPECT is
perfective/imperfective. However, there are other ways of defining the axis:
definite/indefinite or proximate/distant, to name a few.
GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au