Best resources on Aktionsart
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Christian Alexander said:
What is everyone's favorite or most used resources on Aktionsart?
https://www.logos.com/product/41545/basics-of-verbal-aspect-in-biblical-greek
2nd edition is in production at Logos if you are willing to wait.
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David Thomas said:Christian Alexander said:
What is everyone's favorite or most used resources on Aktionsart?
https://www.logos.com/product/41545/basics-of-verbal-aspect-in-biblical-greek
2nd edition is in production at Logos if you are willing to wait.
I agree that this is the most up to date.
Chris
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This book is good. I bought the first edition. How can/do Greek scholars understand akitonsart in a semantic perspective?
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Christian Alexander said:
How can/do Greek scholars understand akitonsart in a semantic perspective?
Started with this search of the text and found 179 mentions of aktionstart,
then refined the search to "aktionsart NEAR semantic" and found:
Semantics
When speaking of verbs, semantics refers to the values that are encoded in the verbal form. These values are unchanging and are always there when the particular verbal form occurs (allowing for exceptional circumstances such as anomalous expressions and certain fixed idioms). In anything other than these exceptional circumstances, a semantic value is uncancelable—it is always there and cannot be canceled out. Semantics refers to what the verb means at its core. What does an aorist encode? What is core to an aorist that is different from an imperfect? What does an aorist always carry with it?
By the way, it is worth noting a little issue to do with terminology. Often the term semantics is used in a nontechnical sense to refer to the range of meaning that a word may have. This is not the sense in which it is now used in academic discussion. The range of meaning of a particular word is better termed lexical semantics, and the type of semantics that we are interested in at the moment is verbal semantics or grammatical semantics, which refers to the uncancelable properties of the verb form.
Campbell, Constantine R. 2008. Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.Making Disciples! Logos Ecosystem = LogosMax on Microsoft Surface Pro 7 (Win11), Android app on tablet, FSB on iPhone & iPad mini, Proclaim (Proclaim Remote on Fire Tablet).
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I should have stated that I have read this book as well as Wallace's book Greek Grammar beyond the Basics.
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