Re: Stative Verbs and Aspect

Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Wed, 16 Jul 1997 21:51:22 -0400

At 07:37 PM 7/16/97 -0600, Wes Williams wrote:
>At this point I need to see evidence of the contrary,
>i.e. that EIMI does not imply continuance or "progressive"
>existence (from the speaker's viewpoint internal to the
>existence = Porter's "imperfective" aspect).

Could you please explain exactly what you mean by progressive existence? I
think this started with a discussion of HN in 1 John 1. Look at, for
instance, Matthew 2:14-15:

KAI ANHCWRHSEN EIS AIGUPTON, KAI HN EKEI hEWS THS TELEUTHS hHRWiDOU.

Clearly, he lived there continuously for a period of time, but this period
is also clearly bounded by two events.

Jonathan

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