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	Aorist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aorist (from Greek αοριστος, indefinite) is a term used in certain Indo-European languages to refer to a particular grammatical tense and/or aspect.
		In Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the aorist was originally just an aspect, but by late PIE it had probably already developed into a combination of tense and aspect just as in Ancient Greek, since the same system is represented in Sanskrit.
		The aorist's second marker is a change in vowel grade, a process known as ablaut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aorist_aspect (447 words)

	Grammatical aspect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In linguistics, grammatical aspect is a property of a verb that defines the nature of temporal flow (or lack thereof) in the described event or state.
		Aspect is a somewhat difficult concept to grasp for the speakers of most modern Indo-European languages, because they tend to conflate the concept of aspect with the concept of tense.
		The aspect is indicated by the case of the object: accusative is telic and partitive is atelic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammatical_aspect (3427 words)

	Aorist aspect -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The aorist aspect was one of the three original (A distinct feature or element in a problem) aspects that defined the Indo-European (A word that serves as the predicate of a sentence) verbal paradigm.
		In Indo-European, this distinction manifests itself as a tripartite division between the aorist, (A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going) imperfect and (A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)) perfect.
		The aorist's third marker is a change in vowel grade, a process known as (A vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)) ablaut.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ao/aorist_aspect.htm (508 words)

	Diss Digest
		Although the discussions of verbal aspect and temporal reference from the field of linguistics have been included as much as has been deemed feasible, the writer is not trained in linguistics and treads such ground with full realization that he is a visitor in the territory.
		Aspect is the semantic category by which a speaker or writer grammaticalizes a view of the situation by the selection of a particular verb form in the verbal system.
		Given an aorist form in a specific utterance, it may be possible to say, on the basis of temporal implicature (and not on the basis of the aorist form alone), that it does, indeed, refer to a past time situation.
	faculty.bbc.edu /Rdecker/rd_diss.htm (10311 words)

	Greek Tenses
		The aorist tense is often used to stress the beginning of an action or the entrance into a state.
		This is the use of the aorist in the espistles in which the author self-consciously describes his letter from the time frame of the audience.
		The aorist indicative can be used to describe an event that is not yet past as though it were already completed in order to stress the certainty of the event.
	www.bcbsr.com /greek/gtense.html (2115 words)

	EDOTHE in Mt 28.19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I don't think we ought to assume that any aorist ought to be "left as an aorist in English." The two languages are quite different at that point.
		There is no way to infer time from the aorist form (as is evidenced by the many uses of the aorist that describe quite a variety of temporal references, including present, future and timeless).
		What has mislead some is that the aorist's aspect is quite natural to use in a past time (esp. narrative) context--and it frequently is, but that by no means proves that the aorist is a past tense.
	www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/archives/greek-3/msg00390.html (332 words)

	THE USE OF THE AORIST TENSE IN HOLINESS EXEGESIS
		In essence the constative aorist is a use that views a process which took a period of time to complete from a "bird's eye view." The point is that this type of aorist normally does not refer to a crisic action.
		This would apply to the use of the aorist in the indicative (where the idea of past time is added to the concept of aorist aspect), as well as to the imperative and subjunctive, infinitive and participle.
		While the aorist itself does not guarantee that this entrance is understood as crisic in nature, the context of the aorist participles in 6:22 and the striking contrast between the present and aorist imperatives in the parallel verse 6:13 lead even Moulton to see this verse as expressing the "once-for-all surrender to God."46
	wesley.nnu.edu /wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/16-20/16-16.htm (5426 words)

	Notes
		One of the difficulties in describing verbal aspect is that of nomenclature.
		In general, Fanning is more sensitive to the various ways in which aspect (semantics) interacts with the context in which it is found (pragmatics), such as the lexical meaning of the word itself, even if he does attempt to salvage too much from traditional grammatical categories.
		Fanning regards several of Paul’s commands in the aorist aspect "as a summary of all that the Christian is called on to do by his new life in Christ: (p.
	www.bsw.org /project/filologia/filo09/Art02n.html (2269 words)

	b-greek-digest V1 #890
		Thus it is a mistake to say >that the aorist tense represents punctiliar action, as used to >be a common statement in grammars; however, punctiliar >action may be expressed by using an aorist tense since it is >not marked as either completed or continuous.
		When I hit aorist subjunctive and infinitive, I was very confused about the difference between aorist and present, especially given the actual use of aorist subjunctive in the NT.
		I was raised on the "punctiliar" notion, having drunk deeply of the well of the comparative-historical philology school of the late-19th and early 20th centuries.
	www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/archives/greek-3/msg01220.html (4413 words)

	Greek Grammar: Active Participles
		The second aorist participle has the same endings as the present participle, but they are placed on the stem of the third principle part (and do not include augmentation).
		Differing from the present participle, second aorists are accented on the participle ending itself.
		As with the second aorist participle, accents fall on the participle endings.
	www.monachos.net /greek/24_pres_ptcpls.shtml (125 words)

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