aorist

How To Use aorist In A Sentence

• When the forgiveness of sins is considered, the use of the aorist tense in the Lord's Prayer makes clear that only a final (one-time only) forgiveness is sought when the Lord comes.
• Finally the sigmatic aorist is no longer treated as a formalized conjugation distinct from the non-continuous. The active-stative mess
• The aoristic present presents the action as a simple event or as a present fact without any reference to its progress.
• An experiential form, parallel to Mandarin guo 过, can easily yield explicit past tense "sigmatic aorists" in Core IE dialects, while forming special 3ps sigmatic past forms for an originally tenseless hi-class as evidenced by Anatolian and Tocharian. New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective
• We can now readily see from the above list that Hittite's 3ps preterite is identical to the experiential form sigmatic aorist, complete with the long *ē vocalism that tags non-punctive verbs. Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite
• However, the antecedent of sigmatic aorists ie. those verbs marked in *-s- with lengthened root vowel which originally expressed a past experience were by definition eventive as well. Archive 2009-09-01
• While my previous contrasting of eventive and non-eventive explains the use of the two sets of personal endings of the verb to an extent, there are still a few cases such as the would-be sigmatic aorist (eg. *bʰērst 'he carried (at one time)') where a term like non-eventive is totally inadequate, if not wrong altogether, but it was the closest concept I could find to explain the pattern. Interesting quirks of a PIE subjective-objective model
• It appears that there's a symmetry between objective verbs marked with *-i ( durative, mi-class) and those unmarked by it ( aorist, past) on the one hand, and subjective verbs marked with *-r ( middle) and those without ( hi-class, perfect-stative) on the other. Interesting quirks of a PIE subjective-objective model
• In Latin, perfective and aoristic semantics fused in the perfect, leaving the perfect and imperfect stems.
• It is only in the aorist that separate passive forms had become fully established (and to a lesser extent the future passive which is based on the aorist passive).